day 35
at this point i'm in deep river (the night before, i was in renfrew) and the campground owner tells me something interesting... he says that there's a couple of girls ahead of me on bikes doing the same kind of trip. sweet... hope i can catch them.
on the ride to north bay, it was another smokin hot day. the hills were getting much bigger and it was looking to be a tough day all round. but a really cool thing happened about 2 and a half hours into the ride... i exploded. seriously, i was a monster. i started climbing hills at 30km/h that would normally take me down to 15km/h. on near flat, gradual climbs, i would accellerate well into the 40's and hold it a good ways into the hill. it was bloody amazing. at first i thought it might be the wind or something but the air was dead still. after about 15 - 20 minutes of total carnage, i started to become my old self again. weird... i certainly didn't plan that or just focus on working harder... the capacity to fly up these hills just sort of happened.