7/22/2018 0 Comments gear!!Photo 1:
(This gear will be placed in my panniers (saddle bags) - along with bags 2/3 and 3/3 of snacks) Eureka Solitaire Tent Marmot 55F Sleeping Bag 2 Lightweight Towells 2 Pairs of Cycling Shorts 2 Cycling Jerseys 2 Tank Tops Smartwool Winter Socks Ball Cap 1 Mid-weight and 1 Lightweight Long Sleeve Shirt 2 T-shirts NorthFace Lightweight Shorts PJ's Chacos Chamois Butter Sunscreen Giant GlowStick First Aid Kit Headlamp Washcloth 2 Lightweight Neck Warmer Thingys Photo 2: (frame) 2 CamelBak Waterbottles Giro Cycling Shoes LLBean Rain Coat Tent Poles Closed Cell Foam Sleeping Pad (not pictured) Photo 3: (Misc.) CamelBak Water Hydration System Bandaids Allen Wrench Set Crescent Wrench Photo 4: Robo Alarm Nikon AW100 Camera Photo 5: Off-brand Leatherman LLBean Knife UPDATE ABOUT FOOD: I've meal-planned for the days on the road and placed them into separate bags. Breakfasts: Oatmeal, hemp seeds, dried bananas and apples Lunch/Snacks: Bag 1/3 - Clif Bar, Larabar, Belvita Bar, 2 Gel packs, 3 small containers of Peanut Butter. Bag 2/3 - Dried apples and banana. Bag 3/3 - homemade chex mix. Dinners: Rice with carrots, peas, and nutritional yeast; pasties
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7/10/2018 0 Comments Training ridesI started thinking about training for the UP Cycle back in April when I was still on campus between winter and spring term. During that week, I was a tad bored, so that resulted in running and biking a combined 62 miles. Once spring term started, I was preoccupied with my class - Michigan Archaeological Fieldwork (our archaeology blog @ AlmaCollegeArchaeologicalProject.wordpress.com) - so I did not bike or run very much. Then, once I got back home to the UP I started 'officially' training for the ride. There is a 20 mile loop that I like to ride, it seems to hit all the major hills in Newberry and it completely circles the town. I created a cycling log for this summer on excel rather than on paper like last year. When I ride, I generally use Strava to track miles/time, unless my phone is dead and I already know the mileage. Yesterday, I rode my first century ride from Newberry to Whitefish Point and back. It was a lot of fun, biking 50 miles then standing in Lake Superior to cool down. I biked the first 20 miles in 1h 33m - one minute faster than in my training runs 😂 I found during this ride that there is a simple eloquence in riding bikes that can be obtained no other way. It's a way to slow down when traveling and really get in tune with the environment; and at the same time to cruise, go fast and break expectations. At one point on M123, I could literally smell the pine trees,, and I was like o m g this is heaven. Yeah, during the middle of the day the temperature got a little hot, but in the end it was totally worth it and I would do it again in a heartbeat. My initial thoughts about the 100 mile ride was that I had to do something to prove to myself that I would be able to bike the whole 300 miles of the UP Cycle. It's not that I wasn't confident about my abilities to bike, I just know I haven't biked consistently this summer, so I thought that if I was able to bike 100 miles in a day I would definitely be able to bike across the UP in a week with panniers. As someone once said, "I can do this, I thought. Then: And even if I can't, I have to." Edit for my previous blog: I am definitely gonna have to bring more food for my trip, because just on the Whitefish Point ride I ate a ton of food and I was ravenously hungry afterwards. 7/6/2018 0 Comments meal prepBelieve it or not, I've been almost as excited for meal prepping as I have been about the ride itself. With that being said, this is the food that I will either have in my panniers or in the vehicle following me:
Dehydrated apples, bananas Dehydrated vegetables Long grain instant brown rice Peanut butter banana Clif Bars Chocolate chip cookie dough Lärabar Oatmeal packets - banana, blueberry, peach, and strawberry Belvita breakfast bars - cranberry orange and toasted coconut Peanut butter Chex mix Pretzels Nuts Nutritional yeast packets Salt packets Pepper packets Onion/garlic packets Honey packets Ketchup packet Mild taco bell sauce packets Cinnamon and sugar packets Vegan protein powder Raw hemp seeds Mio electrolyte/sugar water additive - cranberry raspberry and orange vanilla Gel packs - Hüma chia energy gels Generally speaking, oatmeal + protein powder + hemp seeds for breakfast, bars/fruit for lunch and snacks, then rice + veggies + seasonings for dinner with the exceptions of pasties and pie iron burritos. I will be cooking my food on a lightweight backpacking gas camp stove. In Munising, I am planning on buying a pasty to eat for dinner. The pie iron burrito meal will be kept in the vehicle for weight reasons. It will include soft taco shell, taco seasoned rice, refried beans, and black beans rolled burrito form then placed in a pie iron. I will also be carrying two bottles and a Camel Bak filled with water. |
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