Day 02: Orange, MA to Whitingham, VT

Total Distance: 49.8 mi
Avg Moving Speed: 7.6 mph
Moving Time: 6:33
Elev Gain: 1400 ft
Climing Elev: 5100 ft

Route Summary:
Rt. 202 S to
Local roads through Wendall to
Miller Falls, MA to
Turner Falls, MA to
Rt. 2A W to
Colrain Rd N to
112 S to 
Adamsville Rd N to
Rt 8A N to
Burrington Hill Rd to
Streeter Hill Rd. 

I'm really glad I made it the extra distance yesterday, or today would
have been even harder than it already was. First off, I woke up
pretty late, after sleeping for 12 hours. I really need to stop doing
that. In this case, it was after two nights of 4 hours, so it is
understandable. 

Next, it pissed rain this morning, up till about Miller Falls, where
I stopped for lunch. After lunch, I made it to Greenfield, Coming out
of Greenfield was a really big hill on Rt 2. Ouch. Later I learned
that I could have avoided this hill, but oh well. Then, on the other
side of the hill I burned about 400 feet on a very short stretch
coming into Colrain. One of my more depressing thoughts for the day:
every down strech doubles your uphill distance. 

The final uphill into Vermont was less bad than I anticipated. Partly
because I found my lactate threshold more closly and figured out how
to cross it less, but also probably at least in part to the
ibuprofin. My left knee has started acting up in exactly the same way
as my right knee did in training. 

I'm staying at the house of Mike Patton, an old SIPB member. He has a
really nice house in southern Vermont. The first thing I see when I
walk in is a huge pile of old DEC equiptment, includeing two PDP11s
both of which still mostly work. One of which is even mentioned in
the book Hackers, as the first machine outside AT&T to run UNIX. The
whole house is filled with lots and lots of old computers and other
cruft. A geek house if ever I saw one.