Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Day 3: If you have rainpaints and it's raining, you should really be wearing them; Part 2.

We made excelent time(for us) as we were spurred on by the rain. We got to the hut around 4pm, which was pretty good considering it was more than thirty miles.
I started to feel a bit nauseous as soon as I got off of my bike and I was still freezing. I had just enough energy to do a bit of maintenance on my bike as the rear brake cable was sticking causing the brake to not return to it's released position. After that I slowly ate a helping of Sean's delicious chili-mac.
I started a fire using whatever paper trash was laying around in the hut. Surprisingly it warmed the hut remarkably well, yet I continued to shiver. I laid in bed around 6:30pm and fell asleep pretty soon after that. I awoke around midnight to the obvious sensations of diarhea. The good new was that I was no longer freezing. The bad news was that I now had diarhea and the composting toilet was ridiculously far away; on a winding, narrow, wooded path. A path which I proceeded to walk about ten times that night.

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