Overkill Kms: 4 kms off the road to a park, meandering, to Taco Bell
Road Stuff: Lots of dead deer and a live fox right in front of me into Craig.
Money Spent: $20 for a Maybell Colorado t-shirt, gatorade, and ice cream, $4 Taco Bell, $20 for music downloads.
Wipeouts: 0.
Interesting Person Pick: All of the seven Sweep Team C-Reuben, Matt Z, Matt R, Jason, Melinda, Greshem and yours truly. We were an awesome sweep team, patient, steady and we had a good time on a long day.
Favourite Part of the Day: Having a beer in the park and listening to Death Cab for Cutie and the Once soundtrack that I downloaded of the internet.
Worst Part of the Day: The last 10 kms of the trip had a wicked headwind, we were late for dinner (got in around 7 pm) and we were going very slow with the last few people.
Today I was on sweep, so we loaded the gear truck and it started to get hot. So hot that the kitchen offered us ice cream at 9:30 in the morning. It was kind of a nice morning though because I got to hand sanitize everyones hands in the breakfast line and tell them "Did you know that Colorado is the biggest biker state? They're going to love us here!"
When we finally left, we took our time for photo opprotunities with the unique street signs. All of the signs had dinosaur names (hence the town of Dinosaur). We also found the only coffee place open and spent about an hour there with Bill, the Harley driver on tour. He brings people water in a bind and encourages them when we they are climbing hills. Generally, he's our tough guy on tour.
Melinda in the corner, Matt Z, Jason and Harley Bill.
Then we took a rest and clocked another 30 kms. We met up with Gail and stopped at a park about 45 kms outside of Craig. It was in Maybell, Colorado-the smallest town ever. There was one general store which had cute t-shirts so I caved and bought a really cute tie-dye shirt. It was so nice that Betsy, our nurse and SAG (support and gear) wagon driver went out and bought the same one. Here's a picture of Betsy looking jealous. Also, Jason bought the team a beer and we enjoyed our "waiting for others to finish slowly" time. I called Tim at the payphone since it was already 3:30 our time and 5:30 his time. Cowboy Jim in the background was watching. :
We took off and biked about 25 kms and then caught another cyclist. We had to go slowly into camp, it took about 2 hours to do the last 20 kms...so very slowly. This was difficult for the team because we were biking at a 30 km/hour pace and slowing it to 10-15 kms was hard. When we finally got into Craig, Matt and I took off to find a Taco Bell and we saw a cyclist 2 kms from the camp. Matt was like "You have got to be kidding me! MAN!" I laughed loudly. The cyclist had had two flats, so I gave him my inner tube and we took off to the Bell. When we got to camp, we ate, showered and basically went to bed after Peleton. Also, during my small group, we decided to do small groups twice a week (Mondays and Fridays) because we are so tired at the end of the day, which I think is a good decision. Sorry for posting so late, it was a very long day.
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