May-08: Morrisville 400 km Brevet

I am toooo tired to write a blog post. Here is the quick version: 

Daylight riding: 

HOT.  WINDY.  HILLY.  TIRED.  All VERY. 


Nighttime riding: 

Chilly.  COLD.  WINDY (the wind changed direction).  TIRED.  All VERY.
Also, so SLEEPY and nodding off 3:30 to 4:30, that I weaved around on the road worse than the Duke.
So SLEEPY.  So TIRED.
Made bearable by riding companions Gary and Sara.
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Sara + Gary and me at the Snow Camp penultimate control. 
(Photo borrowed, with permission, from Biker-Bob.)

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The above was originally intended as a temporary, place-holding post, to which I would add "more" details.  I've decided I like the original post, so other than links to others blogging the day (or the pre-ride), and perhaps I'll "borrow" a photo, the above will stand.  (There are some details in one of the comments.)

To:  the "Irregulars" -- bonus points for correctly identifying your "fearless leader" in photos in the linked blogs.
To:  rando folk -- brownie points for correctly identifying your "fearless leader".

(I am quite confident that the "Irregular" that recently referred to me as "our fearless leader" has never seen any of the rando blogs.)

 Maria's pre-ride  ("how much climbing?"  "Too frickin' much.")
 MikeD set a record
 Doc on a bike  (I still don't know who "Keith" is.  Recipricol, I imagine.)
 Vance had a tough time, too  (Our paths crossed several times.  The last in Uwharrie, or Seagrove.)
 Hurrah for volunteers!  (We should have turned his camera on him at 3 am -- it would have made a better pic.)
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A few "moments" to mention before I forget them:

 1)  the 'possum in the dark in the middle of my lane on the bridge on Abner Rd; I went right; it went left.
 2)  two deer in the dark leaping across Old Greensboro Hwy in front of me; a third stayed in the ditch.
 3)  three alert and "interested" black dogs Coleridge Rd; "visible" only by being even darker than the night.
 4)  the night sky as we passed beyond Nautical Twilight; followed by all night bright stars.
 5)  the sliver of a moon that rose not long before Civil Twilight.
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May-08: 

Morrisville 400 km Brevet; 250.1 m.; 18hrs, 55min in-motion time; 13.2 mph; Rando time: _start time 0600 Saturday; finish time 0734 Sunday; total elasped clock time 25 hrs, 34 min. 

Q-1 tot: 16 rides; __938.2 m.; _60 hrs, 39 min; 15.5 mph.
Apr tot: 10 rides; __717.9 m.; _45 hrs, 27 min; 15.1 mph.
May tot: _4 rides; __373.2 m.: _34 hrs, 03 min; 13.8 mph.
YTD tot: 30 rides; 2,029.3 m.; 135 hrs, 09 min; 15.0 mph.

At least five counties for this ride:  1) Wake, 2) Chatham, 3) Alamance, 4) Randolph, 5) Montgomery.

But the route description, as it winds back and forth across CLs, would be, at least:  1) Wake, 2) Chatham, 3) Wake, 4) Chatham, 5) Alamance, 6) Chatham, 7) Randolph, 8) Montgomery.