[DVBC] Adventures in Painting

[ambrosine at comcast.net]

Ed, Mel and I set out on our painting assignment.  Part way up the first real hill, Ed asked us if we had our bikes in the wrong gear as Mel and I were lagging behind him.  I answered that I hadn't been expecting to sprint the first 5 miles to our first arrow.  Ed had it all worked out that we would save lots of time by each taking an arrow.  He would do the first, I would do the actual turn & Mel would do the confirmation.  It took Mel and me so much longer to get to each intersection, that a lot of time could have been saved if Ed had painted all three, then Mel & I wouldn't have had to get off our bikes at all!  At mile 20, we were through painting, Mel and his sore shoulder went back to his car and I decided to do an additional 45 miles with Ed.  We dined at Wawa, a banana each (Ed treated!).  Saw Dan & Misty going the opposite direction on Creek Road.  Ed decided to take Meeting House Road instead of the real route because of the condition of that road.  This is where my legs 
started cramping - Sven, where were you with your Tums?  I will always carry them now.  After running into Bob Ladrew at the top of Sweetwater, I was all alone and out of water.  I stopped at a house where a woman was gardening and asked for help.  While she ran into the house and got ice water for me, her young son squirted me with his squirt gun!  Very refreshing!  The reason Ed did a century is because of all the miles he put in riding back and forth waiting for me.  Thanks Ed, it was a lot of fun and hard work.  And thanks to Mel, my buddy in slowness.
PS  After getting home I sat in my car for about 5 minutes thinking about the amount of energy it was going to take to get out.  I am pooped!
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