We took the day off - caught up on a few things (like the blog) but mostly laid around and watched movies. It was great - not as good as a turkey dinner with family and friends but it was nice. Speaking of dinner - we ended up eating at the hotel because we were a ways out of town and there wasn't any taxi service. They had prime rib but no turkey - so we'll have to have turkey for Christmas!
DeFuniak Springs
9.3 mile run (if only someone could have brought us our bikes 10 miles down the road! As many of you know we are running a 1/2 marathon in January. We haven't been sure how to work in training runs but this worked well so we'll probably keep it up. We both felt good - we are thinking recumbents use similar muscles as running because it really didn't seem like much of an effort until about mile 8.
Bicycling
DeFuniak Springs to Vortex Springs
16.8 miles: 2 hours and 14 minutes
We made this a short day for several reasons - running this morning but also because the next campground isn't for another 60 miles. Also, Scott remembered staying at this campground over 10 years ago when he and Gretchen road the southern tier and he wanted to check it out.
It ended up being a bit more work than we thought it would be because we took a "shortcut" that ended up being a very rough dirt road! We can now say we've been mountain biking with recumbents! We ended up laughing at both ourselves and the people who drove by us and looked at us like we were crazy! :)
The campground is a freshwater diving destination with cave diving. It was fun to watch everyone get out of the water and then to visit with them. Diving gear sure is fancy these days - one guy we talked to was using a rebreather with a helium scrubber. He said he does a lot of wreck diving and had come here to practice with his dry suit and all of the equipment.
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