Some days you just feel like you could ride forever

Today was one of those days, I left at 2:00 on the minuteman bike path out to Bedford, Rolled a bunch of the Bay Circuit Trail including some ancilary loops about walden pond and lost it the same place I had a couple of days ago on Rt 126, did some more poking about in dead end trails trying to reconnect before getting back on 126 and kicking it through Sudbury-Wayland- Framingham and into Sherborn and my favorite road that I ever did my daily commute on in Farm St. into dover, despite the lowering sun I dipped into one last bit of trail I saw well marked off the road called the Charles Link Trail, according to the lady on the horse I spoke with this one goes for over 100 miles and much of it is freshly cut, Holy Cow, reconnected to Rt. 16 and hustled it home through Natick-Wellesly-Newton-Brighton-Cambridge-Somerville-to home after stopping off at the bike shop 15 minutes ago.

About 6 hours on the bike without any creeping discomfort, could have been the 1.5 hour yoga class I did last night & getting back on a regularized 8hr sleep schedule but damn, that was a lot of riding.

I’ll buy a Palanchuck novel whenever I’m in an airport for travel reading, totally forget the name of the last one but characters were able to port into a full sensory experiences that were designed for either education or pleasure.  The hero of the book started a rabies plague that deadened peoples receptors to the fix, he also found out how to travel through time in recreational car accidents and has to save his mother from being killed by his older self when he is born, that’s why I generally leave Palanchuck novels at my destination, a re-read would probably lead to madness.  Anyway, the reason for the digression is the idea of porting into anothers total mental state  seems like the only way you could begin to get across the feeling of a transcendant athletic experience like booking through a farm field and back into the forest with nothing but your breathing, the beating of your legs, the tires turning over through the varying strata, and the lowering light keeping time.

About mbudd

My name is Matt Budd. I am an athlete, engineer, and citizen of Massachusetts. I can build you a bike that will meet your functional expectation of it whatever that may be but I can't do it for free.
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