so firstly a HUGE thanks to brett's parents, they were a MAJOR (oh, pun, hah...ergh) help today since they set up a smoothie break around mile 94...mile 94 of 110...haah...detours...gotta love em...not at all...the smoothie break was great. the few extra miles at the end of sioux city potholes and one ridiculous hill (S fairmount street. it's crazy) were not so great.
umm so yea we all had an AMAZING dinner at the Carroll host yesterday, seriously, whole wheat pasta and sauce and garlic bread has never tasted so good. and they had tons of really good and real fruit and even veggies, which is exciting. and we watched a really cool and sort of scary midwestern plains storm roll in and throw lightening everywhere...pretty crazy to see.
and then the security alarm went off at 10 pm and woke a bunch of us up, and then we had a 4 am wakeup for our sunrise century today. i rode with Spency (ok, fine, Spencer, but...it's Spency) and we had some fun convos and hilarious stories, and totally hammered out a bunch of hills. by which i mean we hammered out the downhills and hugely struggled on the last three miles of 15 miles of rolling uphills. really, anyone who thinks iowa is flat...not true AT ALL. and yea, no dog attacks, just one really nice and calm dog where we stopped to take an energy bar break.
drive-and-destroy is out in force though...one of the cars that rides in from of an oversize load that is supposed to warn oncoming traffic with an 'oversize load' sign was very enthusiastic and profane about warning us...a few other minor incidents, and sioux city is just not really a bike place...tons of potholes, hills, and glass, so i guess cars aren't really used to cyclists here...
but the ride was fun, so many pretty seas of soybeans...that's really the best way to describe it, just these long pretty rolls of soybeans waving up and down as far as you can see, all over hills, etc. also rap for spency who is btw a speedster:
when i'm in front you yell 'car back'
and you wait for me when i'm far back
if a girl threw a punch you'd never spar back
and that's why i'm glad we've got our back!
also we stopped for spency to buy his obligatory three bottles of 100 spf spray suncreen, because that boy goes through soooo much...i mean i guess we all do, but esp him. ginger.
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