Adversities
Our average daily bicycling distance was eighty-five miles. With the day after day, week after week of cycling, saddle sores developed where we cyclists never had problems before on one-week tours. Muscle pains got relief from acetaminophen, naproxen sodium, or ibuprofen, but until the tour was completed, our bodies never got the rest required to recover those hard-worked muscles.
We start bicycling very early every morning, but because of the long distances that we must cover, the energy-sapping heat cannot be avoided. The sun bakes and burns our skin and dehydrates our bodies. Climbs slow us, and if we push ourselves too hard, knee problems force us off of our bikes for days. Even flatlands beat us up by our being in the same gear and in the same seated cycling position for hour after hour after hour. Headwinds slow us, keep us out there longer, and contribute to dehydrating us.
In the high altitudes over the mountain ranges, cold rains sap our energy, our progress, and our enthusiasm. Mornings of thick fog bring us danger as delivery trucks cannot see that we are there. Rough road surfaces pummel our upper bodies and destroy our momentum of spinning and rolling swiftly. Rumble strips pound our arms and shoulders. Drainage grates menacingly lurk in the blacktop like Jaws in the ocean waters. Bitter drivers subject us to their insanity.
The gypsy life of, every day, packing all of our belongings into a duffel bag and pushing on to another destination is wearisome, even without the extreme physical, bicycling demands. In two month’s
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