I heart Wisconsin
May 28th, 2007 |Wisconsin is the perfect state for cycling.
Every little two lane county road is nicely paved, every road goes through to someplace unless it is marked at the start with a Dead End sign, all you need is a GPS unit to get you back to where you started and you can just head off in any direction and have a fantastic ride.
That’s what I did yesterday.
I rode east from Elksnout all the way to the shore of Lake Michigan. I had intended to circumnavigate the entire lake but, as I did last year in my attempt to circle Lake Winnebago, I failed miserably. Upon my arrival in Manitowoc I realized that I had repeated the same mistake of last year, riding two hours out with a tail wind. The wind was just howling from the east which meant a long grind back to the start for me.
Using my GPS unit to keep aware of my starting point I headed off, taking back and forth, into the wind when I felt good and trying to recover with the cross wind when I felt crappy.
I had hoped to get in 90–100 miles by the end of the day but dealing with the wind for 40 miles left me pretty well baked upon the finish of the ride. But it was very enjoyable and quite scenic.
