Am i stupid?

Today it was my sweep teaks day on duty again. We served breakfast, cleaned up breakfast and then loaded the gear truck, we were done that by around 8:00. We then decided to go into town to a coffee shop and camp out there for a while. We sat in the coffee shop for about an hour and then we decided we should start the day. We cycled for the rest of the morning and a bit of the afternoon and covered about 60km. We were now in a small town and we stopped at a grocery store/pizza place/variety store. We talked to the people at this store for a bit and found out that the other riders had passed shortly before us so we decided to take a break. After conversing among ourselves we figured we should eat lunch here.

It was around this time we were talking about getting pizza. Theo, Nick and I were like… hmmm pizza would be good. We then saw a bunch of pictures on the wall with the title “pizza challenge” naturally we had to ask what this was. We were informed that it was a challenge to eat a 15 inch pizza and drink 1 litre of pop in under an hour. We discussed this for a while and decided that it was a dumb idea. We still had over 80km to go and there was no way we could ride on that. We approached the lady at the counter and asked if we could try and accomplish the task as a team considering our circumstances. They rejected saying that they didn’t want to have other people come in and see that we did and try to compromise the rules even more. We thought this was fair so we didn’t argue.

At this point we found out that if we completed the pizza challenge that the pizza and pop was free! This was the tipping point. Nick and I were all over that (Dutch blood + free = !!!!!!) Theo was still a little sceptical (to understand his scepticism you need to understand that he is a very small guy and all the guys on the wall were fat.) We ordered the pizza’s. The lady’s making the pizzas were shaking their heads and telling us that it was a terrible idea. We aren't smart.

To really get the full story you really need to look at the pictures below. The pictures tell the story better then i do. Ill narrate a little bit when necessary.

Notice the smiles and chipper faces
Note we are still smilling but at this time the pizza still tastes good

It tastes gross right now and it is taking everything in me to stop myself from putting it all back on the platter.
I finished it!!! YAY A FREE PIZZA AND POP that ended up tasting disgusting and totaly not being worth it by the end. (i look alot better in this picture then i feel)

Nick finished his in just under the hour mark and Theo was very smart and decided to quit with 4 pieces left. Nick and I took a walk outside and attempted to induce vomiting after we finished. Nick was successful, he managed to get about 4 pieces worth out of his Eosophagus (because the stomache was deffinately full after the first 8 pieces.) I was very unsuccesful and only managed to get about a bite out. About 20 minutes later we hit the road. It was a very uncomfortable ride. After riding about 10km i couldnt take it anymore and told Annete, Theo, Nick and Ryan that i needed to stop for a second. They all coasted to a stop and then watched me pull over to the side and drop off a couple peices of pizza. Who knew vomiting could feel so good?

From here on it was a very univentful (and uncomfortable) ride. Lots and lots of NOTHING!!! We did pass into Utah but Utah is also a whole lot of NOTHINGGGGGG wahhoo i do not like the dessert. To be positive at least there is mountains in this area of the desert!

Anyways its almost 11:00 and I need to go to bed. I only got to camp by 7:30 so i kinda wanna stay up and party but.... i have another 100+km day tomorrow so that would be foolish.

I'd like to thank Annete for being the official photographer of the pizza challenge and for encouraging us along the way. And i would also like to thank her for the mints that she had. (figure that one our yourself)

The end,