Indoor sea trials
INDOOR SEA TRIALS? HUH?I am composing this blog post in my shop right now sitting in WiTHiN pedaling away trying to complete a 24 hour simulation. I started at 8:00 am (Monday 11h) and at 8:00 am tomorrow morning I will climb out o the sleeping cabin and go have a shower. I'm almost at 4 hours now and so far, so good. My first task this morning was to spend 35 minutes hand-pumping my manual desalinator to make some water for breakfast. That was a valuable exercise because I found a position to hold the manual pump and was able to pedal at the same time. It wasn't that bad - I could see doing that for an hour a day maybe first thing in the morning. Then I fired up my JetBoil camp stove and made some dehydrated scrambled eggs for breakfast, and a cup of hot instant coffee. I spent the next couple of hours going over emails and making up this blog post. Here are some photos of the ACTION! The plan is to pedal 4 hour shifts with 30 minute or so breaks between. I think I'll stop pedaling at 8 or 10 pm, have a snack, then hit the sack in the cabin.I'm going to continue to Twitter, Facebook and blog throughout the day, so stay tuned.
