I'm on the bus from Jerusalem to Mizpeh Ramon. To my great surprise, the bus left at 7 pm, much earlier than I thought. I guess after ten years of running this ride, Alyn is getting sharper.
I had a delightful, if short, time with my kids and grandkids on another beautiful day in Jerusalem. (And, thankfully, I got a very solid night's sleep). Getting to see the kids is one of the best side benefits of doing the ride.
As usual, I started to get very nervous during the afternoon. Even though I've done this ride five times and I've done virtually every part of this year's route, I still got the same quesy feeling in my stomach as I did the very first time. The feeling doesn't go away until I clip in on the first morning.
Tomorrow's ride is around 50 miles with about 3700 feet of climbing. (I never know how accurate the mileage and elevation estimates are but this year I will be using a Garmin GPS that will give me all that information as well as the gradients. I would not normally buy myself such an expensive toy, but effectively, I got it as a gift. It's very cool, I have to admit).
The difficult part tomorrow comes at the end, when we descend into the Ramon Crater and then climb right back out.
Normally I would not worry about a relatively easy day like tomorrow but I have been feeling a bit off, with cold that doesn't seem to want to go away. This ride is difficult under the best circumstances. Not feeling 100 percent is very intimidating. I will try to take it as easy as I can tomorrow.
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