Solar RV cycling log July 10 and 11. Wow. While. Dead meat! James, start every voyage this way, 100% in the thighs. 0% 0% In the lower legs , dead meat.

 2 days ago was a horrible wonderful climb. Bill my brother, Tells me that cyclists from Europe come to The Onion Valley climb Because it is the
closest America has to offer to they tour DE France. 

 13 miles of uninterrupted climbing much of it very severe. The reward at the end, well, see the post below to the link to several 100 photographs. 

 As reported, James let the vehicle carry all but 100 pounds of us, never done by him but done on this trip. This particular leg. 

But nevertheless James body was pretty spent. 

 Yesterday was intentionally physically easy. Only 25% or so of the expenditure of the prior 2 days. But what little there was, maybe an hour and a 1/2 of expenditure, was quite frustrating. Nothing seemed to be clicking into place. All of the practice's proven in recent days were brought to mind and applied And helping, disaster it was not. But poetry, well, it was not that either. 

 Then a thought emphasized itself, 100% of the energy in the thighs James, 0%, did you hear me? 0% outside of thighs in the lower legs. Well, James had not been hearing it up until then. But with that emphasis he did. 

 15 minutes or half an hour, maybe even a starting 5 minutes of bad habit, even the slightest energy in the feet and ankles, can take hours or days or even weeks To loosen the grip of a pad habit. 

 But within a 1/2 an hour Poetry, if not the greatest, was returning. And this morning, the lesson was applied And instead of a lost half hour or 45 minutes or days, although not the most magnificent poetry, good poetry.