Planning Joshs Birthday

For anyone who hasn't heard, deepest sympathy to the P2S route as they lost a leader in a collision yesterday. All of the groups are feeling the dangers of what we are doing, and can hardly grasp the reality of what has happened. If you want to read more, bike and build has an official statement on their website.

We woke up this morning, still shaken from the events last night. We opted to leave later and give everyone some time to recouperate. In the mean time, Nolan enjoyed opening his bike much like a kid on chirstmas, and vowed to get beth back a million times over.

We also played about an hour of knockout in the school gym.





Then it was time to get on our bikes and ride. We stopped about 5 miles into the trip to see a bathtub on the side of the road. That's right, a bathtub. A spring with the best water in the county cam flowing out of a pipe into this tub. So we all filled up our waterbottles with the cool water and continued on our way. (don't worry we were told we could drink the water)

Jamie and I stopped about 10 miles from lunch and he downed half a gallon of chocolate milk and a box of Nilla wafers! He was prematurly bonking haha! The scenery was awesome with rolling hills of farmland.

At lunch I couldn't eat enough. My body kept telling me to eat more. I think it had to do with the century from yesterday. Then I passed out under a tree for about an hour. I woke up, ate a little more and headed out with sam Andrew and mark.

We stopped at a wendys because the boys wanted frosties and met a man with about a million questions for us. Travis though he was weird and choose to sit by a lamp post outside for the rest of the stop.

We continued on and stopped at a kmart to go shopping for joshs birthday tomorrow. We bought Alejandro the piñata. He rode on the back of marks bike for 10 miles.



We stuffed it with joshs clothes and will set it up for him tomorrow.

Stats of the Day:

Total Mileage: 65.01

Avg Speed: 14.91

Max Speed: 31.66

-- Diane

Location:Lacross, WI