After the intense hills of yesterday, I was ready to join the A team who planned to take a direct route into Fredericton on the Trans-Canada. This saved us about 20 km and smoothed out the hills a lot. Whereas yesterday we would go up steeply for a hundred meters, down steeply for another hundred and repeat, today we would go up a gentle incline for a kilometer followed by a gentle decline. This made it much easier to ride together since there weren't radical accelerations and decelerations happening all the time. Also, the road had about an 8 foot paved shoulder that was in great condition. All this combined with cooler weather made for a much, much easier ride. The only downside was that there wasn't much to look at. Just trees and more trees, as far as the eye could see.
Here we are riding along with Ilan's problematic saddle clicking away. Multiply that by about 500 and you have an idea what the day was like. Ilan, who recently admitted that he "doesn't do well with boredom", resorted to singing 70's classics such as "Comfortably Numb". That was a good description of my state of mind on this day.
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