I would be very interested in hearing people's opinion on the tent vs tarp and/or bivy question. How bad do the bugs get? Any feedback or links to older posts would be appreciated.
Good luck all you brave TD riders....my thoughts are with you as you prepare for the Grand Depart!.....onward to Mexico!!!! Blue Skies! Mark Witcher TDR 2014 ....:-)
Reading the recent post re: aches and pains.....I guess many of us are at the point where the months of intense training are starting to show....following a hard effort a few weeks ago.. (124 miles with 17,000 feet of climbing in a little over 10 hours)....I discovered my seat had dropped during the ride...and I ended up with nagging pain in the front of my right knee......so... of course I kept training and whining to my wife about how everthing was turning to ca ca right before the Grand Depart!....she finally convinced me to take 10 days off the bike...I was panicked and depressed....I needed a plan!....so that's what I did...I sat down and outlined on paper exactly all the steps I would take to get the problem fixed...or at least manageable, prior to getting to Banff...I am following my program to a letter and I feel much more confident and my knee pain is gone....I wont go into boring detail about what I'm doing...its just a bunch of cross training...I WILL be at the Grand Depart....and I Will give it all I have and the let the chips fall where they may......life is an adventure and nothing is guaranteed.....but at the end of the day what matters is that you honestly gave it all you had with nothing left in the tank....that's all we can do...see you all soon in the Great North! Blue Skies!....Mark
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