Thursday, July 31, 2008

Oh sweet tailwind, how we love you.

Today was a great day. This morning when I woke up their was donuts for breakfast! a local bakery donated a whole bunch of donuts it was wonderful. I then bumbed around in the usual morning sort of manor until I was packed up. I really didnt feel like biking. When I got on the road with Justin and John we started riding at a pretty casual pace and then we looked down and we were going around 35km/hr THANK YOU TAIL WINDDDD. It was so awesome. We ended up cruising most of the day (not including the time it took to change 3 of my flat tires... I blew another tread) We ended up averaging 32km/hr my highest yet average and that was without even pushing it. 1 more 155km day done.



A couple of weeks ago we made up a game to keep things entertaining. Every time that we see a county, town or state sign we race for it. It doesnt matter if you tell people you are racing or not you just take off to get to the sign first. Today we happened to pass alot of these. I would guess that we raced 10-15 times. It was so fun but so exhausting. John is a ridiculously good sprinter so its a little rough on my pride but its worth it for the competition (and i get to beat Justin every now and then so that I dont lose all my pride.) When we got to camp we went swimming at the local pool and that was also really fun.



Overall, awesome day.



the end

A sweet thing at the edge of the field that we could see from the road. This is about as good as the scenery got all day.

1 comment:

Nicole Geerlinks said...

Bradley,
People are DEFINITELY reading your blog. It's interesting to just be living and here different people say something about you and I'm like "how do you know that?" And then realize it's because they've been reading your blog.

Free doughnuts? That's awesome!!! I'm sure that was your highlight for the week :) Or at least the day.

And tell John that I'm impressed that he keeps smoking you on the race to the sign. It's good for you ;)

Keep going! Keep pressing on! Remember the cause... remember what it's all about.

Nicole
P.S- read the story about "Maria" in e-version of On Your Way Monday.