Saturday, September 8, 2007

Day 12: Castelnaudary to Auch

I rode in the van today, owing to my bad knee. It was actually fairly relaxing, if a bit disappointing, to be in the van all day. I had the opportunity to take a bunch of pictures.

Upon arrival, I checked the height of my saddle and found that it is a bit low, which could account for my knee problem. I'll try riding again tomorrow. This has happened before and raising the saddle fixed the problem. I wish I had thought of it sooner!

The group seemed to like the ride today. For once, everyone stayed together and rode a sensible pace. It figures it would be the one day I wasn't riding at all.

The hotel this evening has no internet and stinks of stale cigarette smoke. Maybe I'll go sleep in the parking lot.

Here are some photos:

This is the church in Mazeres, where we had stopped to get bread. There was organ music but the front door was closed so I couldn't see what was happening.

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Here's the bridge over the river Ariege, in Saverdun. Amazing colors there.

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Jennie, Ron and Craig.

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Ron

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