The prairies continued.

Hey everyone,

Saturday was debatable one of the best days of the tour for me. I left camp around 7:30 with John Vanderveen, we decided that we wanted to bike fairly hard so we warmed up for a bit and then we took off going around 30km/hr. When we passed Lawrance he decided he wanted to go fast so he took off after us and caught up quickly. At this time we had a side wind so we were in a paceline and we kept changing up the leader (because the leader has to break the wind and the guys behind get a bit of a free ride) We went hard like this all day but the best part was when we got to go north meaning we had a tailwind. When we went north we were going a minimum of 40km/hr and going fast is so fun!

Saturday night we were staying at a hockey rink! They had "freeskate" so we asked if they had any sticks and if we could play hockey. They agreed and for $5 a person we got a skate rental and a stick and pucks! About 20 of us (all but 1 Canadian) played hockey for around 3 hours. It was INCREDIBLE! just what the doctor ordered.

6 hours of biking + 3.5 hours of hockey = exhaustion

slept like a baby.

Sunday we went to church in Omaha "Im off to Omaha, spelled o-m-a-h-a, change planes in Minneapolis, why Omaha? a good question. Because its somewhere else thats why." Church was good it was nice to be in a building for church rather then outside like every other service this trip. It just felt a bit more like a church service. After the service they had food. It was really cool to talk to people and realize that they were behind us on this tour and to have the hospitality was incredible.

Today we had to ride 140km and we had another headwind. It wasn't 2 strong and i think we are just starting to accept it as a fact of the tour. Me and Justin road together for most of the day and we rode veryyyyy slowly. It was alot like Monday. At around the 90km mark we met up with John, Alex and Kyle and then we all rode together going very slowly and doing a bunch of random dumb things to keep entertained. Overall it was a good day.

We crossed the Missouri river into Iowa today, hopefully this state is more entertaining then the last. I wont get my hopes up.