Heard on the Road

We decided to try to get an early start on Sunday morning and left camp around 7 am.

The EC forecast for Hamilton that morning was 20% Probability of Precipitation and the skies were expected to clear up later in the morning.

As soon as we clipped into my bikes that morning, it started to rain. Though not quite as heavy as the worst downpour on Saturday afternoon, it was heavy enough that we were soaked before we left the Hamilton city limits. This rain stayed with us until early afternoon.

I ended up beside a guy on a country road about mid-morning. We chatted about how things were going and he mentioned that he had talked to his wife the night before and that when she asked how it was going, he said that it was “the longest swim he'd ever been on”. Truer words...