Course: Milwaukee, WI to Glenview, IL
Distance: 75 miles
Conditions: Minimal wind
Terrain: Mostly flat
After an awesome time in Milwaukee, we had to depart for
Illinois - one day closer to the Windy City. We had to rack the bikes to get through
the dangerous roads in the city and we drove for about 25 minutes. When we got
to our starting point, pretty much everyone had gone back to sleep in the vans
and didn’t want to start riding. I rode with Jason and Stephen. About 35 miles
in, Stephen’s spoke broke and he had to rack for the day. Jason and I finished
the ride off in good timing though. We arrived at a local YMCA and had lunch
upon entering the building – that’s always nice.
We had a few hours of free time after eating and showering,
so a handful of us went to a bike shop and then to Steak and Shake. I had only
been to Steak and Shake once before, and now I officially don’t regret that. In
the evening we went to the back yard of the YMCA to have a friendship
visit/dance. We had a cookout with and dance party with a group of kids with
developmental disabilities and it was a blast. We played cornhole, football,
dodgeball, and danced our faces off for the creepy looking DJ. He was an older
Caucasian male with a pretty thick moustache. He kept playing songs to “get us
going” on the dance floor and would constantly be saying things into the
microphone like “Yeah!” and “Clap your hands!” when the song didn’t call for
hand claps at all. We still had a lot of fun. There was a balloon artist there
who made a lot of guys giant balloon facemasks and swords to swordfight with.
If a guy lost, he’d fall to the ground and all of his balloons would pop. The
younger boys got a good kick out of that.
After the visit we had a team meeting and were then released
for the night. One of our sponsors, Barb, had a daughter that is going to be a
freshman in college. She insisted that we all come over for a bonfire to meet
her daughter and her “cute friends.” Needless to say no one was opposed. We sat
around the bonfire and made s’mores while most of the guys swarmed Barb’s
daughter like bees to honey. I guess girls are one thing JOH doesn’t give you
enough of?
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