One last 90 mile push before a well earned rest day! We were up late last night taking a road trip to Malta, MT to track down the nearest Dairy Queen for a night time snack run, so we agreed on departing a little bit later than the previous day.
We left around 7:30am after eating a nutritious breakfast of fry bread and maple butter (Thanks, Dodson!) and pushed the mileage into Malta, MT in a double pace line. It felt like we were flying after yesterday's painful 13mph into the headwind. We held good pace until right before our first long rest break when the wind picked up again. Yuck! The wind stayed with us for the rest of the day AGAIN.
At our first rest stop we see our sag vehicle pulled into some random driveway on the side of the road and a table set up with our favorite fueling snacks in some farmers tractor shed! Curt Spurzem had made friends with Farmer Jerry who generously let us borrow the shade of his shed for our snack break. I never really appreciated the luxury of shade until riding hundreds of miles in Eastern Montana.
Speaking of hundreds of miles, we have been on highway 2 (known as the "high line") for the most time we have spent on one single road. In the past few days I have watched as mile marker 300, 400, AND 500 have sailed by! I do not doubt we will see mile marker 600 shortly as well.
My parents showed up this afternoon! They are on support for this week - it was great to sprint up to them on the side of the road for a short meet & greet before finishing up the ride into Glasgow, Montana for REST DAY!!!!!!
When we were about 23 miles out of Glasgow, we all were feeling a bit antsy from being in the exact same pace line for the past 300 miles or so. Reid then decided to hold a personal time trial for himself and race himself all the way into Glasgow. We gave him the challenge to do it in 1hr 10min into the headwind. As driven and competitive as Reid is, he accepted the challenge and took off listening to 2009 pop hits. Moments later, Oliver decided he was going to race Reid so he took off after him. Later we learned that Oliver drafted off of Reid, riding inches from his rear tire, for almost 45 minutes before Reid even noticed Oliver was there. Classic Wade.
Once in Glasgow for the night we were pleasantly surprised with the privilege of staying at a hotel. A real hotel with showers and beds and TV's and little coffee makers and beds and did I mention beds?
For dinner we went to the Glasgow VFW where the mayor of Glasgow graciously hosted a small sloppy joe potluck for us. We met with several veterans and exchanged introductions and stories over dinner. It has been a great experience meeting with different veterans along the way. It's a whole new level of meaningful when these people give genuine thanks to us.
Now... REST DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
We left around 7:30am after eating a nutritious breakfast of fry bread and maple butter (Thanks, Dodson!) and pushed the mileage into Malta, MT in a double pace line. It felt like we were flying after yesterday's painful 13mph into the headwind. We held good pace until right before our first long rest break when the wind picked up again. Yuck! The wind stayed with us for the rest of the day AGAIN.
At our first rest stop we see our sag vehicle pulled into some random driveway on the side of the road and a table set up with our favorite fueling snacks in some farmers tractor shed! Curt Spurzem had made friends with Farmer Jerry who generously let us borrow the shade of his shed for our snack break. I never really appreciated the luxury of shade until riding hundreds of miles in Eastern Montana.
Speaking of hundreds of miles, we have been on highway 2 (known as the "high line") for the most time we have spent on one single road. In the past few days I have watched as mile marker 300, 400, AND 500 have sailed by! I do not doubt we will see mile marker 600 shortly as well.
My parents showed up this afternoon! They are on support for this week - it was great to sprint up to them on the side of the road for a short meet & greet before finishing up the ride into Glasgow, Montana for REST DAY!!!!!!
When we were about 23 miles out of Glasgow, we all were feeling a bit antsy from being in the exact same pace line for the past 300 miles or so. Reid then decided to hold a personal time trial for himself and race himself all the way into Glasgow. We gave him the challenge to do it in 1hr 10min into the headwind. As driven and competitive as Reid is, he accepted the challenge and took off listening to 2009 pop hits. Moments later, Oliver decided he was going to race Reid so he took off after him. Later we learned that Oliver drafted off of Reid, riding inches from his rear tire, for almost 45 minutes before Reid even noticed Oliver was there. Classic Wade.
Once in Glasgow for the night we were pleasantly surprised with the privilege of staying at a hotel. A real hotel with showers and beds and TV's and little coffee makers and beds and did I mention beds?
For dinner we went to the Glasgow VFW where the mayor of Glasgow graciously hosted a small sloppy joe potluck for us. We met with several veterans and exchanged introductions and stories over dinner. It has been a great experience meeting with different veterans along the way. It's a whole new level of meaningful when these people give genuine thanks to us.
Now... REST DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
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