Day 75 July 20, 2011 Mckerrow to Spanish 51km – Mike’s View
20 Jul
Today was probably the least exciting day of the whole trip so far!
I am actually quite stumped about what to tell you. We started in McKerrow, and woke up at just after 4am, and Riley was on the road and running just before 6am.
It was a cloudy morning and the highway was very quiet. Toronto news kept saying that today and tomorrow are going to be some of the hottest on record since 1948! Luckily for us, we are quite a bit north of Toronto now, where it is slightly cooler. I think the fact that it was cloudy all day helped keep the heat down, however, it was VERY humid!
Riley's special lululemon wet-wicking, dry-tech (whatever they call them) shirts were just soaked the entire time! They used to be dry, when it was hot, because it would evaporate before Riley even had a chance to notice he was sweating. Riley stopped to wring out his shirt a few times today, as well as change his shirt completely at lunch.
Just as he finished stretching at the end of his run and was getting into the bus, it started raining. Only for about 5 minutes or so, but it was kind of like it was waiting for Riley to get in the MCC. We then drove back down the road about 3 minutes into Spanish, a small one road strip of a town. Kind of cute, in an old and dying kind of way.
For dinner, I made a beef and vegetable stir-fry, served on rice with an orange ginger sauce, and if I may say so myself, it was Delicious! But of course, with 2 huge mouths to feed, I underestimated, and had to make a smokie for each of us as well. Riley was still hungry after that and ate an entire cucumber! It's good to see him finally eating more than me!
The time is now 5:35pm, and the plan for both Riley and I is to roll into bed and sleep deeply until our alarms wake us up before 4am again tomorrow.
-Michael Downie
I am actually quite stumped about what to tell you. We started in McKerrow, and woke up at just after 4am, and Riley was on the road and running just before 6am.
It was a cloudy morning and the highway was very quiet. Toronto news kept saying that today and tomorrow are going to be some of the hottest on record since 1948! Luckily for us, we are quite a bit north of Toronto now, where it is slightly cooler. I think the fact that it was cloudy all day helped keep the heat down, however, it was VERY humid!
Riley's special lululemon wet-wicking, dry-tech (whatever they call them) shirts were just soaked the entire time! They used to be dry, when it was hot, because it would evaporate before Riley even had a chance to notice he was sweating. Riley stopped to wring out his shirt a few times today, as well as change his shirt completely at lunch.
Just as he finished stretching at the end of his run and was getting into the bus, it started raining. Only for about 5 minutes or so, but it was kind of like it was waiting for Riley to get in the MCC. We then drove back down the road about 3 minutes into Spanish, a small one road strip of a town. Kind of cute, in an old and dying kind of way.
For dinner, I made a beef and vegetable stir-fry, served on rice with an orange ginger sauce, and if I may say so myself, it was Delicious! But of course, with 2 huge mouths to feed, I underestimated, and had to make a smokie for each of us as well. Riley was still hungry after that and ate an entire cucumber! It's good to see him finally eating more than me!
The time is now 5:35pm, and the plan for both Riley and I is to roll into bed and sleep deeply until our alarms wake us up before 4am again tomorrow.
-Michael Downie
