"...And even with everything, if not for the last 25 km or so, I would have said yesterday was worse" -E Okay, we'll start at the beginning. The day actually started well. Since yesterday was so long, we decided to sleep in a little. We knew we wanted to make sure to have a good breakfast given our low energy yesterday (though on later thought, we believe the dinner from Wednesday night might have had something to do with it too - good, but not enough carbs). The hotel breakfast usually starts at 7:30 am, but the manager kindly agreed to make sure everything was set up by 7:00 am just for us, so that's when we had breakfast. As soon as we were done eating, we hit the road; it was about 7:25. The morning
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