As I have said, ad nauseam I’ve been feeling a bit rough. After the ride yesterday I was surprised that although tired it went surprisingly well. That was until after my meal, a wave of nausea and pain hit me. I wandered a bit, then lay down I rotated these 2 three or four times but they both got worse. I endeavoured to force myself to throw up, interestingly I used to be quite good at that in my drinking days (ps. Just hit 19 years without a drink) anyway I failed despite multiple attempts. Eventually at about midnight, I put in an emergency call to a friend, she calmed me and by the end of our conversation I was relaxed and had decided not to call an ambulance.
I drank some 7Up and a Tropicana took some drugs and everything settled down.
The morning was like night and day. I awoke at 8.40 rearing to go.
The 1st hour of my ride was round in circles. I was trying to avoid a main road and went round in circles in the endeavour. Unfortunately I failed wasting 90 mins of my day.
Once committed the road was flat straight and full of traffic. Unfortunately I put the wrong port down for the boat to Cat Ba island. So when I got there and had been told no I had to do a roundabout route adding another 20kms. I rushed to the ferry boat, time was pressing. I jumped on snd 20 minutes later we landed on Cat Ba island. Cycling hard the last 20kms, the repercussion of going to the wrong ferry was that my last 30 or 40 mins would be in the dark. The Cat Ba mountain view will have to be seen in the morning if it is good enough.
A Couple of Days Ride Outta....... 