Pastor Rick here; we arrived safely at the conference at 1:15 P.M. with almost 2 hrs. to spare.  The guys kept up a killer pace at 14 mile per hr and rode 52 miles.  Some of the riders were not satisfied with 256 miles so they rode around the campus to get 300.

For the most part the ride was uneventful, but there were some highlights.  We got to ride over the Susquehanna River for the second time in 6 days and after that began on of three long climbs.  The highlight of the ride for me was as we dropped down off of the 3 big hill of the day we arrived in a beautifully shaded valley for about 2 miles.  Each climb was rewarded with a wonderful, long, down hill, and the last 5 miles of the ride were down hill into Messiah.  

The rides have added up but each rider finished strong and I yelled out my van on the last small hill, “you can see the top”.  We hope this gift of time and energy is pleasing to God.  Thanks for the support!

The East Team.