What a fun ride today, I was with Brandon and TJ who I haven’t ridden with in a long time. It was a really short ride too and an early morning, on the road by 7am and only rode 38 miles. It was a pretty 38 miles except for the one big downhill which was ruined by absolutely awful roads, bumps, holes and patchy asphalt all over, plus the roads were wet. Leaving lodging we knew it might rain a little and it started sprinkling pretty early so we were soaked all day, the last 10 miles it really started to come down. I didn’t mind it too much I kind of like riding in the rain, it is cooling and just fun, except for the water coming up from the guys’ tire in front of me. I did the big ring challenge again for the third day in a row now and powered through all day. We thought that today was going to be 45 miles but I guess that included a section we had to get racked for, at 38 miles we were red flagged and the second pace line to role in. There we all racked to get across a bridge that was too dangerous to ride on and because at that point we were so close to stage up we just drove to there and waited for a bit to ride into our arrival. Our visit was with a local organization called The Children’s Therapy Clinic. They offer therapy to kids with disabilities from helping kids with autism learn social skills to music and physical therapy. They have a small facility that is shared with the Red Cross but they make a big impact on over 60 families that they serve. We got to meet one family at the visit who were so much fun. Every year staff from both Red Cross and Children’s Therapy Clinic come to the visit and they were so excited to have us and expressed so much love for what we do and appreciation for the grants that they get from Push America. We ate Pizza there and got a tour of the building before we left and headed to lodging.
That was our only visit for today so we had a ton of free time so a bunch of us wondered over to the mall a couple blocks from lodging and got some coffee and did a little shopping until we came back to lodging for dinner provided by our sponsor here which was catered by Olive Garden so we got some great pasta and salad.
The rest of the night is just hanging out, we have the whole place to ourselves and we can turn the lights off and actually have a dark room. Tomorrow we have 75 miles and our last day in West Virginia. Only 9 days until arrival and I don’t think I have really accepted the fact that it is so soon. I’m making every second count from now until then, hanging out with the team and putting my all into every friendship visit as always.
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