June 9th, 2008 | categorizilation: all categories,China
Today’s distance / ???????: 30km
Average speed / ????: 9.8km/h
Time on skateboard / ????: 3h 00m
Total skateboarding distance to date / ????????????: 7703km plus 450km (?)
Ascent / ??: 350m
Descent / ??: 50m
End-of-day GPS coordinates: N43° 10′ 54.00″, E091° 38′ 12.80″
There are many factors which grind your patience and motivation to a mere resemblance of a stump. A boring landscape is one of them.
Flat and featureless, today was a tough one. Add to the boring surrounds a pair of legs that are three weeks out of shape, and you’ve got a tough day. Thoughts of giving up once I get to Hami are well and truely alive right now. But then a voice in my head reasons that this is the first full day on the board after three weeks off. Don’t be so hard on yourself. The voice is far away and non-descript however. I resolve to get a bicycle in Hami and cycle the rest of the way to Shanghai.
A nice sunset reminds me for a moment why I’m out here.
And then I pull off the road and try to sleep the night away, buffeted by wind despite my semi-sheltered spot in a dry water race (dumb idea, I know).
Dude, I would so not blame you for ditching the board. Of course, you must finished via human power. That one is non-negotiable, eh?
Scott
Looks as though there might be some hills somehwere in the second photo but there's nothing much else to see!
