Today was supposed to be a 226 mile drive, it ended up being 235 because there was a detour.
We drove through Sharon the town that Martina McBride grew up in.
Luckily today was uneventful. Long roads through the great plains. You know the picture you saw in your text book for social studies and talked about the great plains - this views were exactly that.
Scott had Joe welded something to get his front brake fixed. I don't know what Larry and Jerry did but their bikes sound good!
Mike didn't maintenance stuff on his bike.
My wobble isn’t great. Joe adjusted some of the sporks in my back tire and we tightened for fork head? hmm... the part of the bike that holds the handlebars. We used a thing to pump up my tires, tony checked with a manual gage and it showed lower than what we had put in, so we added more. Hopefully with all these changes, no more wobble.
We got into our finish line earlier than everyone expected. There was applebees across the street so we headed in there. Tony Joe Sean and I were at the table that we designated the "kids table". The other team butts members paid our tab. It was very nice, and confirmed more that we are at the kids table. We are running with it.
I had someone ask about the scoring for this endurance run. The scoring works by first the number of miles you achieve. If there are multiple people with all the miles or the same amount of miles (miles from wrong directions don’t count) then it goes to the age of the bike - oldest wins. If there is a tie with that- it then goes to the oldest rider.
When they describe this journey they say it's man vs machine. That is no lie, but it's also man vs self. We are all tired and worn out. Ride all day, wrench on bikes, get sleep that doesn't feel like enough. We are fighting through it and getting things done.
If I have responsed to your comments on facebook or here, please know I do read them all - I just have lots of things to keep up on.
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