[OrRando] joels pbp pics up

[joel metz]

crepes in la tanniere were awesome. id been looking forward to that 
stop the entire ride - even saw him on the way out for just long 
enough for him to yell "au retour!" as i passed...

and yeah, i stopped for a bit to read postcards, and ill be sending 
one his way from portland!

-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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		       portland, oregon
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           i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
                                 after she got that bicycle...