Pecans! Oh the Pecans!

I've been spending reading week down in Ramer, Alabama this year. It's a tiny town south of the tiny city of Montgomery. People here are real friendly and have no inhibitions about shamelessly gawking. Yesterday I left my laptop on the deck all day and no one stole it, no one steals our bikes from the unlocked shed and no one steals stuff from the unlocked house. I am in Ramer to ride my bike every day to get in close to 1000 base miles in. When you are burning somewhere between 2000-3500 extra calories a day food is important! We are voracious, bottomless pits.

Today we rode about 120km and did about 3000ft of climbing all together. At about 70 km in we stopped at Priesters Pecans. Oh the pecans! Pecans upon pecans! And free samples everywhere! I think I ate about 6 pecans covered in various sugary coatings and I felt a sugar high like I have never felt before in my life. There was honey coated, cinnanon, peach, caramel-chocolate covered, dark chocolate smothered, pralined, rummed, key-limed and more. We marched in dressed to the nines in sexy sexy sweat soaked lyrca and helmets descended like vultures on the free samples. My favourite were the praline, the cinnamon and the honey coated. It's too bad I could only fit two packages in my jersey pocket (honey and praline).