We woke up at 6, had another crew chief breakfast, and got ready for one of the toughest days on the trip. In my paceline was Brad (UNC), Brian (Colorado), Chris (Colorado), and Tommy (Illinois). Hill after hill, mountain after mountain, we just kept pedaling. It wasn’t easy my any means. We were going up pretty steep hills for miles, one of the roads had at least a 15 percent grade uphill. I was in a pretty fast paceline, and we made it up to lunch as the second paceline, with the sweeps over 2 hours behind us…we were that spread out. I felt a little dizzy, but nothing too bad, I’m guessing it was just over exposure to the sun. At lunch we had a crew chief lunch, consisting of a 2 meat, 1 cheese sandwich and some fruit. I was dripping with sweat but we only had 12 miles more, with what I was told, a pretty sweet downhill. We started rolling, and before we knew it, we were flying at 50 mph down the mountain, into the town. We lost Tommy in the downhill, and we were worried sick. We gave him a call, and apparently he got stung by a bee on the way down, but was fine and racked himself to lodging. A few miles later, we saw him and he basically just had some bad luck.
We got to the hotel, and unpacked and relax. After I took a shower, I fell on the bed and was out until dinner. I was so tired, and it was just what I needed, a 3 hour nap.
For dinner, we were again sponsored by a rotary club at a park. They served us ribs and this lemon chicken that was pretty scrumptious. I ended have a ton of ribs, over 12. After dinner, we went back to hotel, where we cleaned out the vans, as it was getting to the time of the summer. We finished things off by going to the conference room and having our version of secret santa. It was pretty funny, and a lot of fun, and kind of sad that out time as a team was running out. We then had the rest of the night off, where we just watched TV before calling it a night.
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