Is ready for the weekend

Yet another 180km day completed, 180km is a long time on a bike. For the first couple weeks of the tour i would get bored after about 100km and just want to be done ridding but recently ive upgraded my bored levels and i do ok until about 140k and then im just ready to be in camp. Tomorrow we have our third "century" (100miles) ride in a row.

For most of the day today I rode with Jon Elzinga, Julia, Kaitlyn, Jeff, and Justin we rode a pretty steady pace, not fast but not slow. It was fun. It was funny because Julia would go fast down hills and then Jon or i would get mad at her and say "hey brick slow down!" we call Julia are brick because we want someone to keep us going slowly.

One of the highlights of the day was when a Tractor pulling a hay bailer turned a corner in front of us and Jon, Kaitlyn and I quickly took advantage of this and pulled into the draft behind it. We didnt go very fast but we also didnt have to work very hard. It was awesome! The tractor pulled off after about 5km and we continued into the next town. When we were eating at the next town Jon said "i could really use anothe tractor" and within a minute a tractor pulling 2 huge feeder bings starts coming through town. I quickly shove my sandwhich in my mouth and Jon tucks his granola bar into his shorts and we take off again. This time going around 35km an hour with almost no work we drafted this tractor for around 10km. It was incredible! When it turned off we realized again how much wind sucks. lol.

We pulled into camp around 4:30 and then I sat in my chair and put my ipod on and was asleep within minutes. It was a wonderful catnap.

1 more long day and the tour should start to get easier.Yesterdays riding on nice smooth black pavement right after the rain.

Drafting the hay bailer!Yay corn!!! wahoo we love you corn.... lol