Nathan’s First Flat!
August 1, 2008
Yesterday Nathan and I biked 76 miles from Liverpool to Little Falls, New York and we had another first on the trip. Nathan got his first flat tire. Not bad considering we’ve traveled about 3,300 miles. He ran over a little rusty tack, but it was just enough to puncture through the kevlar of the tire and the tube. I think he was disappointed that he didn’t make the whole trip without a flat – just four days short, DARN!!
We also got soaked again today. It started drizzling at about mile 15 and Nathan said ‘If this gets any worse we’ll put our rain gear on’. So we kept pedaling and sure enough it got worse. The rain started coming down steadily but I noticed Nathan wasn’t even slowing down. Then he looks back and says ‘let’s try to outrun it’. I knew he didn’t want to stop so I reluctantly said ’ok, let’s go’. I think he sensed my hesitation so he pulled over and started taking his rain gear out and I followed suit. Less than a mile after getting our raingear on it really started to pour. In the middle of getting dumped on I looked at Nathan, smiled, and mockingly said ’let’s try to outrun it!’. We both had a good laugh.
Semper Fidelis.
