[OrRando] joels pbp pics up

[Jkeenan(Yahoo Account)]

Joel,

How were the crepes?  That was the one place I stopped at for food that 
wasn't SPIZ.   Hope you took time to read some of the postcards and that 
you'll send them one from Oregon.  I sent mine from New Jersey in '03

Great ride ...congratulations...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "joel metz" <magpie at blackbirdsf.org>
To: <orrando at tire.patch.com>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:00 PM
Subject: [OrRando] joels pbp pics up


> http://www.blackbirdsf.org/randonneuring/2007_pbp.html
>
> just pics right now (and not a lot of the actual ride, as usual!), no 
> captions yet, journal to come later, next week some time, im sure...
>
> itd be interesting to see if the pnw abandon rate was significantly lower 
> than the overall...
>
> im subtitling this years narrative "the rone van vlaanderen called - it 
> wants its weather back"
>
> the more i reflect on it, the happier i am with this years performance - i 
> rode smoother and faster, never once had a problem with bonking or 
> starting to fall asleep on the bike. stopped more, chatted more, slept 
> slightly less but more intelligently - generally acheived all of my goals, 
> including the primary one, of course, which was to make it back to paris 
> in anything under 90 hours.
>
> may see some of you at crooked river, but thats still up in the air - 
> definitely at verboort!
>
> -joel
>
> -- 
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> ==
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>                                 after she got that bicycle...
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