Brattleboro travelogue

[topaz]

As promised, ride diary and pictures from my bike trip to Brattleboro. Read all about the fortified encampments in Winchester, the jaded New Hampshire shopkeepers, and the undiscovered mysteries of the Sugar House. Find out what's cool to do in Ashburnham, and the really awesome milestone I reached.

(Note to folks on slower connections: that page has about 180K of thumbnails on it. Sorry. I shrank them down as much as I could.)

Comments

[fj.livejournal.com]

Perhaps for our British viewers you may want to clarify the term 'bonking'.

Although they'd believe you were ready to do so. Most think you are ready to do so at the drop of a hat.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that "perilously" is not a term I normally apply to that activity.

Anyway, "bonking", for any of my poor provincial not-acquainted-with-American-jock-slang friends (if I have any) who may be reading this, is a term U.S. athletes use to describe what happens to your body when it runs completely out of fuel. When your muscles are completely depleted of glycogen, you get suddenly exhausted, headachy, sometimes nauseated -- generally feel like hammered shit. It's pretty unpleasant. Eat your peanut butter.