Tour Divide Day 19.
Total time: 14 hours, including 3 stopped.
Dear Headwind,
Please stop.
You've been in my face for three days now. I round a 180 degree switchback and you are still there. How do you do that?
You have penetrated my brain and I can't hear myself think. I can still hear you screaming in my ears when I sleep. My lips are cracked and bleeding with the perpetual dryness that you create.
I've had my head down so much as I've been trying to avoid you that I almost didn't notice how much the landscape has changed. This isn't skiing territory anymore. I'm into the hoodoos and badlands. Neat.
I only cleared two of the three passes that I'd aimed for today because I let you get to me. And I'm sleeping solo tonight because you put a gap between me and my friends. Yeah, you got me today.
Don't be fooled. You can slow me down, but you wont stop me.
(But, please stop, anyway).
Tori
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
posted by tori at
6:40 PM
8 Comments:
Right on, Tori! Nothing will stop you. You are almost in New Mexico as I write this, after all. And, almost passing 2,000 MILES!!
I look forward to reading your updates every day. You are very inspiring.
A Mike in Calgary
OMG--19 days! Almost there, and oh, the sights you've seen!
Thinking of you, Tori, and looking for your update every day.
Your amazing! Nothing will st you now......will be following blog in between feeling sorry for my self when hurting 20 km into a 40 km on stage one of three in Fernie! Itll help me suck it up!....
Keep pedaling, not much left so enjoy it!
Way to go !!! Mountains, wind - just a tiny mental challenge for YA :-)
Go Tori Go
You have Kiwi support and love
Have asked the biking kaitiaki to transfer your head wind over here
You are an incredible athlete
Lindsay G
In the immortal words of Meatloaf...two out of three ain't bad! Maybe the headwinds were a blessing as they seem to have taken your focus off the grade and the huge rocks that had JP walking about 75% of those climbs a couple of days ago.
-Cathy
This made me smile! YOU GO GIRL!!!
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