Well this is not a day for our baby books... after that stop at the top of the hill we made it another few miles and stopped at another yard. Then we made it another few miles and stopped where someone had a shade tent set up with cold towels and water. At this point it was clear that I wasn't doing well... we were only about four miles out of town, and after relaxing for quite a while and cooling down and trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to force myself to drink water, we soldiered on.
Those of you with sensitive stomachs might want to skip this paragraph... we made it to within sight of our camp when I gave Lyle the "pull over right now signal" - familiar to my siblings from years of car trips - and hopped off the bike to puke up what little I had in me. Ever puked so hard your abs cramped into a knot? It's not fun. This is way too much info, but to give you an idea of how dehydrated I am... I peed this morning about 3:45 and haven't gone since...
So it was about 7:30 before we finally rolled into camp, and after a quick shower (which involved more puking), we hung out with Col. and Mrs. Ladd for a little bit - long enough for her to flex both her mom muscles and her physician assistant muscles.
So tomorrow we'll be riding the bus instead of the bike and trying to let me recover enough to ride successfully on Thursday and the rest of the week. Sucks for Lyle, because with the tandem, that means he has to take the day off too.
And... Three Dog Night is playing in town tonight, but with the way the day went and how far away the camp is, we're content to just lie here in our tent and sorta barely hear them rather than going downtown to deal with the hike and the crowds.
I'm not including what would be the right pic for this post... the puke (go ahead and thank me in the comments), so instead here's a pic of the bike this one guy is riding on what I think he said was his thirteenth RAGBRAI.
Today's unblogged highlights included people in lawn chairs in their front lawn spraying cyclists with garden hoses to cool them down and a little guy standing out there high-fiving people as they rode by.
We saw a skateboarder out there today. So roller blader, unicyclist, skateboarder, bone-shaker, elliptical bike thing, bunny triple, triple with no one in the middle, lots of disabled cyclists on adapted bikes (hand cycles, trikes, or with attachments for an arm prosthesis), every possible kind of tandem and recumbent, and the dude riding barefoot. And the week isn't even half over yet!
Those of you with sensitive stomachs might want to skip this paragraph... we made it to within sight of our camp when I gave Lyle the "pull over right now signal" - familiar to my siblings from years of car trips - and hopped off the bike to puke up what little I had in me. Ever puked so hard your abs cramped into a knot? It's not fun. This is way too much info, but to give you an idea of how dehydrated I am... I peed this morning about 3:45 and haven't gone since...
So it was about 7:30 before we finally rolled into camp, and after a quick shower (which involved more puking), we hung out with Col. and Mrs. Ladd for a little bit - long enough for her to flex both her mom muscles and her physician assistant muscles.
So tomorrow we'll be riding the bus instead of the bike and trying to let me recover enough to ride successfully on Thursday and the rest of the week. Sucks for Lyle, because with the tandem, that means he has to take the day off too.
And... Three Dog Night is playing in town tonight, but with the way the day went and how far away the camp is, we're content to just lie here in our tent and sorta barely hear them rather than going downtown to deal with the hike and the crowds.
I'm not including what would be the right pic for this post... the puke (go ahead and thank me in the comments), so instead here's a pic of the bike this one guy is riding on what I think he said was his thirteenth RAGBRAI.
Today's unblogged highlights included people in lawn chairs in their front lawn spraying cyclists with garden hoses to cool them down and a little guy standing out there high-fiving people as they rode by.
We saw a skateboarder out there today. So roller blader, unicyclist, skateboarder, bone-shaker, elliptical bike thing, bunny triple, triple with no one in the middle, lots of disabled cyclists on adapted bikes (hand cycles, trikes, or with attachments for an arm prosthesis), every possible kind of tandem and recumbent, and the dude riding barefoot. And the week isn't even half over yet!
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