Day 5 – Fallon to Winnemucca

Fifth day and we have established a routine. It is difficult to get enough calories. You are hungry and satiated at the same time. I had been looking forward to be able to indulge in Cinnabons, Candy and poor food, so therefore frustrating that you cannot,

We take our Recovery Hydrolysate every evening and though it is difficult to a randomized blinded clinical study with crossover and bells and whistles, we can definitely spread the anecdotal evidence that Arla Foods Ingredients’ whey hydrolysates work. We feel OK, when we get up in the morning at least until this morning. Let us see tomorrow after a long leg.

Also the wounds from the first days of fumbling around on the bike are starting to heal. I managed to tilt twice on the bike due to not unclipping my left foot. They were solo accidents while taking breaks but when the bike tilts to the wrong side due to the bags’ weight I have to use my left knee to stop the fall. Looks stupid but luckily there have not been many people around when it has happened.

There is a fine feature (in theory) that the Garmin GPS can sense if there is an accident. At the time of setting up the device, I was probably asked to give Charlotte’s contact details. When something happens the Edge sends a message to Charlotte unless I abort the message by pushing a few buttons. I do not now why my wife should get a notification in the middle of the night if the bicycle falls over on a parking lot, while I am shopping for Gatorade or for that matter if I am run over by a Peterbilt truck, so I should turn off the feature.

Today we did not have any accidents – only four flat tires. Three by Troels, one by me, so we are now 5:2 on that statistic. We rode very carefully the last 40-50 miles because we had run out of functional tubes and the tube repair kit was emptied last night. We did 217 kilometers to Winnemucca – All roads lead to Winnemucca, especially Freeway 80, which bicycles were allowed to go on. Four or five kilometers before Winnemucca, the GPS instructed us to leave the freeway to go on a scenic drive by the Airport and a long state road leading into Winnemucca. Not what you are longing for after a hot day on the freeway.

We do not know a lot about this town except that it is the only Nevada town named after a Native American chief. Mucca is pronounced as “mocca” the coffee kind of mocca, if there should be other moccas.