Pastor Rick here, and what a great day to ride, it was 71 sunny and a light breeze.  Thanks to the people in DE for giving us a great night sleep and a great start to the day.  Because of the help of Pastor Les we were on the bikes by 9:30 A.M. and began a killer pace cranking out miles along 100 in DE and PA.  3 states in three days Wow!

The highlight of the morning was the two tunnels that we got to ride through off of Valley Road in Chester County.  So we couldn’t see where we were going.  We at least came out the other side.  That was more than we could say for the trail in Downingtown that had 3 different ways to go.  We thought there was only 1 way out but once we drop the riders off we found out there were three ways out.  And the one place we were waiting was not the 2 ways the team came out.

That was just the start of our mapping fun.  Once we found each other and had lunch, and began the ride again the map lied to us again when the road we were on did not cross the Turn Pike like we thought, so we loaded up the team in the van drove 5 mile around and continued on our ride. 

After riding most of the day on the flats the hills began.  One thing that my team never wants to hear from me again is “I think that is the last big hill of the day.”  Bleim rd. has one more hill, sorry guys.  

My favorite moment of the day came on one of the early hills.  I was out in front, and as I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the team come up over the hill 4 bikes in a straight line and 2 bikes back (my thought) “It’s a privilege lead these guys.” 

By the way, one thing we won’t talk about is the 3 or 4 riders who in the last two days who fell over standing still.

Kudos to Nate Jones who rode the entire trip with a hurt hip, and still beat most of the team up many of the hills (It’s good to be young).

51.7 miles later a pace of 12.8 and some tired riders.  Thanks for supporting us.