First Day Back on the Bike - April 17

Had decided the night before that we wanted to have a good breakfast this morning – the Royal Livingstone Hotel is back down the Highway – the wrong direction for us, back towards Victoria Falls – but they have a really, really good breakfast so we decided it was worth the extra ride. So we told the staff our plans and hopped on our bikes to ride the 9k in the opposite direction! We enjoyed an amazing buffet breakfast – fairly expensive but I think we got our money’s worth! We were at the top of the Falls, at the widest part of the river – great views – very cool! There was a good group of us – 9 in total. It took 2 ½ hours in total and then we were ready to leave for the day’s ride! It was a group of strong riders but as a non race day didn’t really matter. We rode well together straight through to lunch. It was a lovely sunny day and the road conditions good – we kept the speed fairly low – about 30ish kmp – and spent some of the time messing around seeing how fast we could spin our pedals in the easiest gear and going downhill – just good fun! We were the last ones in to lunch and grilled cheese sandwiches – however we were still so full from breakfast it was hard to do them justice! I forced myself to eat a few! Then we had a nice casual bike ride all the way to camp (and into Botswana). I never pushed myself today although I did hurt a little and had to slow down a few times to recover. In general though I found it fairly easy for my first day back on the bike!
Happy birthday dad!!