{"id":660,"date":"2018-08-04T22:56:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/?p=660"},"modified":"2018-08-06T22:52:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T02:52:24","slug":"rest-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/2018\/08\/04\/rest-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 37 to 39: The “Rest” Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Friday afternoon August 3rd to Monday afternoon August 6th I took a couple of “rest” days.\u00a0\u00a0 Rest is in quotes because I needed to be back in Boston on Sunday August 5th and the drive each way from Pittsburgh’s Airport to Boston was almost 12 hours long.\u00a0 Twenty four hours of driving covering 1,200 miles in three days is not really a rest.<\/p>\n

On the way to Boston I had my son help do the driving.\u00a0 He did about two-thirds.\u00a0 On the way back to Pittsburgh I did the entire drive alone.\u00a0 Going to Boston it rained very heavily while we were driving through the Pocono Mountains.\u00a0 In the Poconos the rain came down so hard cars put on their four-way flashers and drove around 45 mph on the highway instead of the usual 65 to 70 mph.<\/p>\n

The weather was fine going back to Pittsburgh, but there were quite a few road construction crews out.\u00a0 Numerous parts of the highways were being fixed and this slowed traffic in parts to a crawl.<\/p>\n

I arrived home Saturday morning at 2 AM, which meant I did not pedal for two days!\u00a0 Not much happened during Saturday.\u00a0 I spent most of the time sleeping, eating and doing laundry.\u00a0 Laundry was the key activity since my clothes were so filthy they were starting to bother even me.\u00a0 It is a shame the weather forecast for Tuesday is rain, which will just get my clothes filthy all over again.<\/p>\n