Mondays are typically my long ride day, and today was no exception. 45 miles along the coastline of the South Shore of Boston. Wind and heat were not my friends - I didn't realize how dehydrated I had become until I was about 14 miles from home and all of a sudden the ride was a struggle. Fortunately, there was a snack bar which sold Gatorade along the route. This let me take a delightful break and try to rehydrate myself at least enough to get home.
The best part of the view here is not Hull Bay in the background, but the bottle of Gatorade in the foreground. Lesson learned - do a better job of hydrating (question asked: what did I do wrong? I thought I drank a lot of water the night before and morning of the ride, AND I drank along the way too).
Lesson number two: when it's windy, think twice. I needed to get my ride in, but there were a few gusts of wind that almost knocked me into traffic.
Finally, I have to say: I have a big thank you for several drivers who were very courteous and a person directing traffic at a road construction site who held traffic to let me go ahead of cars because he wanted to make sure I was safe.
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