South Bend, IN to Coldwater, MI

After a pretty stressful day yesterday, today turned out a lot better, and was quite relaxing.We woke up at 6, had a sponsored breakfast which included egg casserole (yum) and zucchini bread (double yum), and headed out to Michigan. After a pretty rough day yesterday, I decided to sweep along with Michigan State graduate, Chris Kelley, and TCU senior, TJ. Ten miles after we departed South Bend, we were already across the border in Michigan. Since there wasn’t any sign, we couldn’t tell exactly where the border was, but we had an idea based on the license plates on the parked cars.The roads were pretty enjoyable throughout Michigan except for the occasional three mile stretches of nasty cracks and pot holes. However, there were times where the shoulder was bigger than the road, a site I have never seen while cycling.Thirty-five miles through, we had a snack break provided to us by Kevin Kelley’s parents, a Central Michigan University graduate who currently works for Push America. After some delicious cookies and juice, we were on the road again. It was roughly half way to Coldwater, but because we took such a long break, our legs were tight and and the last half felt forever. We pushed through and we finally made it to lunch and lodging. Lunch was provided buy Kevin Kelley’s parents along with Chris Kelley’s family, along with Carroll Luster. Carroll Luster is the mother of Ben Luster, a chapter brother of mine who road in 2006. They greeted us with a huge poster which had all our names on it, along with a University of Michigan flag. After the subway lunch, we road a mile to lodging, took a van ride to a local gym to shower, and pretty much relaxed until dinner. I decided to be a road marshall for today and drove the first 20 miles to make sure there wasn’t any hazards for tomorrow’s ride...there wasn’t. Once we got back, we had dinner donated to us by the same sponsors as lunch. i also met the sponsor for tomorrow, who is a Pi Alpha from Elon University but lives in Ann Arbor. For dinner they served us corn, salad, and grilled chicken, which was all pretty good. After dinner, we took the vans to a car wash and vacuumed them out until they were practically good as new.
Once we got back, we had a pretty lengthy team meeting and I may have zoned in and out through it, I’m not too sure, I can’t really remember.
I’m pretty excited for tomorrow. Ann Arbor, here I come. Hopefully, I don’t get a flat tire, which has a good chance of happening considering the state of my tires.