Day One: 74 Miles, Harvard to Harvard and Back
Day One of my 8th PMC is in the books. Actually Day Zero as Day 1 is always the first Saturday in August. Usually on Day Zero we bike an extra 97 miles from the NY state border to Sturbridge. Today I biked 74 miles from Harvard (Univ.) to Harvard (the town in central Mass) and back. Today's ride was my longest ride of the year (by 25 miles) and I made it more challenging by riding my gravel bike with the 40mm wide tires still on them (really more about being lazy about changing them out than anyth ing else). The weather was gorgeous, although it got hot after lunch (85 F) but not bad for late July. This You've Got This Sign was well placed on a long hill (there was a total of 2500 feet of climbing today). It was definitely a different experience biking the PMC solo instead of with my usual crew of merry riders, and oh yeah, another 6000+ riders as well. And all the amazing volunteers and people lining the streets of the all the towns we bike through. I think I saw only two ot