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Our 9th official skating of the 87-mile Athens to Atlanta Roadskate (not including
two unofficial traverses in 2005) was on a warm and sunny day one might have expected
a month or so earlier. I knew I'd be feeling the muscle cramps in my quads eventually
but that didn't stop me from being overly excited at some points early on. Still,
we got together a group doing roughly one-minute rotations and mostly stayed together
for a long time. Unfortunately our dozen or so turned into two six-packs, which I
think slowed most concerned down in the long run, with only two to four actually
making their break stick. We recollected some later, and lost two dear ones to equipment
failure and use of non-standard hardware by the manufacturer such that the wrench
sent back to them by car (a good samaritan!) was useless. As the day wore on we had
four to seven or so, and with the final climbs that settled into four. We finished
without a lot of pain and took over six hundred photos along the way, with 520 being
perhaps worthy of inclusion here. I hope you love 'em, and read more at roadskater.net.
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