Pegg Julson

TRAM Notes 2026 Day one: Menahga to Park Rapids. It was 96 degrees in Menahga when I checked in. They let us sleep inside the air conditioned school. It was actually too cold and I put on warmer clothes in the middle of the night. I slept poorly, partly because the ceiling lights came on at 1:30 AM and stayed on. I got up at 5 AM and had breakfast. I started pedaling at 6:15 AM…my earliest start ever, I think. It was 71 degrees and the dew point was probably the same. I rode the whole way and it was sunny and 84 degrees when I finished. The other Pirates had already gone to lunch, so I had to go by myself. Everything was hurting the last half of this ride, and I’m pretty sore and whipped. Getting pizza and wine now.

TRAM notes TRAM 2026 Day one: Menahga to Park Rapids. It was 96 degrees in Menahga when I checked in. They let us sleep inside the air conditioned school. It was actually too cold and I put on warmer clothes in the middle of the night. I slept poorly, partly because the ceiling lights came on at 1:30 AM and stayed on. I got up at 5 AM and had breakfast. I started pedaling at 6:15 AM…my earliest start ever, I think. It was 71 degrees and the dew point was probably the same. I rode the whole way and it was sunny and 84 degrees when I finished. The other Pirates had already gone to lunch, so I had to go by myself. Everything was hurting the last half of this ride, and I’m pretty sore and whipped. Getting pizza and wine now.

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