Today was a total rollercoaster of emotion. It started as the perfect recovery and transition from the epic climb of Kirkwood. We began the day like usual with an early 6 AM wake up, followed by a tradition crew chief breakfast.
We began are departure to Carson City, which was seriously the easiest ride of the trip. It was a total 35 miles. The first 5 miles were kind of tough…a steady 9% grade incline. Next 10 miles were remarkably beautiful…a quick 9% grade decline. I was flying down the mountain reaching speeds of 40 mph. I could of gone faster but I value my life. The rest of the trip was completely flat but we had a tail wind which made it even easier. We were biking 20 mph effortlessly.
Once we arrived at Carson High School in Carson City, we were police escorted to the Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada, basically a summer daycare center for kids from K to grade 12. We interacted and entertained with the group of maybe 400 kids. After a good lunch, we entertained them with a little educational puppet show about different disabilities. I got to say, its nice to be a kid. All they do is play video games and tag. We retreated back to the high school where we received some rather sad news. One of the kids on my team, David, was leaving the trip for personal reasons. We’ll miss you man.
Before dinner, one of the local bike mechanics was nice enough to look at all our bikes and do maintenance for free. He helped straighten out my wheels so the bike should make in to DC on time. During dinner, I actually had a pretty interesting conversation with him, as he was also a mechanical engineer and his son is doing his PhD in ME.
For dinner, we went to a cookout sponsored by the local rotary club. I know I say this a lot, but this was the best meal of the trip so far. Steak. Usually that would be enough to satify me, but there was so many other great foods like ravioli, tortellini, deviled eggs, potato salad, Caesar salad, tri-tip steak, and other entrees. Now if that was enough, there was a ridiculous amount of desserts; cake, cookies, baskin robin icecream, brownies, fudge...did I mention cake? Man, I must have gained an easy five pounds that meal. Luckily, I probably would lose it the following day, but if I’m eating like this daily, it could be trouble. After the good meal we went back to lodging.
A few of us decided for some fourth meal and got some in’n’out burger. I wasn’t really hungry but I thought I might as well eat my last in’n’out meal for quite a while. I just got the usual animal style French fries. After that, went back to lodging and went straight to sleep.
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