NO MAS. Done.
Will be good to have a day off the bike.
Relatively leisurely day dropping down off the piedmont to the very gently rolling, pine forested flatlands. Progressively increasing tourist influence and Williamsburg is a big tourist trap. Continued on through Williamsburg down to the shore at Yorktown for a chance to dip the bike into salt water, go for a swim, have a picnic.
I rode 3500 miles and waited until about 5 miles from Yorktown to break a spoke - made quite a loud noise, and slowed me down fairly promptly. So, opened the brake, limped a couple miles to a support van, changed wheels for the rest of the day.
Warm,humid but pleasant day.
After lunch and before riding the 14 miles back to Williamsburg and the hotel, took a ride and walk around the Yorktown battleground. Pretty interesting to see it in real life - those guys were looking down each others throats and with pretty small defensive earthworks, and little to fight back with, I agree with Cornwall - time to quite while some of us are still alive and let the damn colonists have the place.
We started early today: great sunrise on the road.
For the first time, we all rode together for the last 2 miles - 38 folks in a double line - made for a big group. Then, cringe, got a chance to test how nice drivechains and carbon frames held up to salt and sand!
By the end of the trip (and before the salt and sand) all those quiet, newly tuned bikes were making an awful lot of creaks, squeaks and groans. As were the riders.
5.8 hr, 151 km (90 mile), 87 av heart rate, 16.1 mph.
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