Dec. 28 : near Anklesvar, India

Wednesday, December 28 :: 18km S. of Anklesvar, India :: 157km today / 1186km total

Nothing remarkable today, just a long slog down Highway 8 towards Bombay. A bit of a tailwind helped me along but still I felt depleted and less than 100%. Its very difficult ro find food that isn't fried or oily, as veg food tends to be. And there's no meat in Gujarat. Some big signs outside of restaurants displayed hamburgers, hot dogs, butter chicken, etc, but upon asking they cruelly turned out to be ruses, but, would you like a veg sandwich? No. No I wouldn't.

140km into the day my left IT band (knee) started to let itself be known to me. Not hurting, just "twanging", but I know this type of chronic injury well, having battled it in my triathlon racing days. Not a good sign, and troubling. I stopped at the first guesthouse I came to and, wearily, iced, stretched, and Ibuprofened. So tomorrow the tensor band that was guarding my right ankle moves to my left knee... its 310km to Bombay...