Troy, OH
Total Distance: 73.2 MilesRide Time: 5 hours 3 min
Avg. Speed: 14. 7 mph
Max Speed: 27.7 mph
Bike: I would like to start by talking about a sad incident that happened two days ago on another cross country bike trip It's called the Habitat Bike Challenge which is through Yale. Click Here for their site. A girl two days ago who was on that trip was hit by a car and died. Click Here to read an article on it. It was a wake up call to us all and we all took a moment to realize the significance of it. This trip is something we all decided to do for ourselves and a great cause. But with it comes a lot of risk and challenges. Biking is dangerous and we all know that. I want to let everyone know that we do everything we can to make our trip as safe as possible. I also want to let everyone know, family and friends, that if something happened to me I would ask that the trip continue without interruption. If I had any request it would be that the trip still achieves it's goal. I just want to finish by sending my support to their trip and hope all else will be well.
Today, we had an 70 mile day and Lauren and I decided to be sweep again. It went pretty well until we hit some strong head winds, so we started a pace line. The visual stimulation is declining as the corn fields increase but it's nice to hit a small town every 10-15 miles. During the ride today my right pedal broke and I had to ride 4 miles with only one leg, pretty fun. I put a junky pedal on after lunch and once in Troy I had to buy new ones, which was kind of a bummer. The church we are staying at is amazing and they are very organized. We are even getting a police escort out of Troy tomorrow at 7 am, should we awesome!! I'll try to get some pictures. Probably read and get to bed early as we have an 80 mile day tomorrow.
Build: The county Habitat president came to dinner with us and spoke a little. He talked about how amazing Bike and Build is and how it really brings a lot of media attention to Habitat and increases the volunteer base. Tonight the local Fox news channel was here and they will also shoot some footage tomorrow as we are escorted out of the city. Another cool thing is that the local Habitat affiliate did a women's build. A women's build is when women build the entire house from design to roofing it. Men aren't aloud to help with anything. Because of their last women's build, a lady that had recovered from cancer ended up donating $7,500 to the Habitat affiliate because she felt that working outdoors on the women's build house had helped her overcome her cancer. I thought that was pretty amazing.
Ride on! Stay safe!
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