Day Two – Feeling the Burn

Daily Brief

It’s only day two and our legs, faces, and arms are already stinging. As we raced against the sun, we made it into Brigham City without much daylight left, recovered in a Wendy’s then made our way to a church’s lawn for the night.

Red, White, and Blue

The Wirthlins sent us off right with a huge breakfast complete with pancakes with whip cream, fruit salad and eggs. A great start to day two.

The team with the Wirthlins before we started our journey for the day.

By the end of the day we were all feeling the burn, but most of that didn’t come from the 60 or so miles traveled, but because we forgot lesson one our mothers taught us when going to the beach, to put on enough sunscreen! I think someone said we looked like hairy tomatoes. My arms were definitely some kind of burnt red, next to a pasty winter white. I will not forget my sunscreen again.

Kregg Rogers (Shauns brother in law) joined us today and will be riding with us until Seattle. All in all, the day’s ride went fairly smoothly. It was a little hilly, and some parts were buggy but aside from that we moved along alright. We passed by temple square on our way out of SLC and took as many frontage roads as we could, asking for direction from a police officer or friendly locals when needed. Eventually we had to hop onto the highway and stayed safely on the right side. As we were going under an overpass we got our first flat when Kregg popped his tire. Just about everyone jumped into help, and the flat was fixed in no time. That was the only real mishap of the day.

Making our way to Brigham City we began to lose daylight, and the blue sky was slipping into dusk, but thankfully we were close to our destination. Ill equipped for night time travel, daylight is precious. Part of the reason for the lateness was because we started the day’s ride at 1:00 PM, and because our legs haven’t adjusted to biking all day yet –

In Brigham City we took refuge in a Wendy’s restaurant. The team took up the entire back corner of the restaurant with our sprawled out bikes and bodies. We were starting to get worried since all our supplies were in the Van, which Carsten was driving up from Provo. It was getting cold outside and Shaun and Chandler were thinking about getting a hotel. Thankfully Carsten arrived at 10:10 PM and the Wendy’s people didn’t seam to mind letting us stay until ten minutes after close.

As a side note, Chanlder went to check out the hotel and the lady told him that if we did drugs, or tried to sneak in people she would call the cops…Chandler, maybe its time to cut that beard…

After Wendy’s we found a nice spot of grass outside a local LDS church and took to sleeping. We just put out a tarp and threw some sleeping bags down. It was time to recover and get some quality sleep in.

Daily stats

Distance: 68.66
Time: 5:03
Avg. Speed: 13.6
Max Speed: 36.8

Total Distance: 119.86

P&C Pushups: 75