Hi blog! Today we woke up around 6am to Adam cooking some scrambled eggs which we scarfed down with some delicious scones from Sierra Camp! 😋 After putting some air in my bike and grabbing a spare tube, we were off. Nancy sped off and I tailed her (Adam calls me the draft demon lol).
We made a quick pit stop at a gas station where we got ice and water. By this time, Danny had packed up the van and pulled over in front of us to offer us water. But we were having too much fun so we sped past them and continued on our journey. Along the way, Nancy saw a large hill of dirt and wanted to test her BMX skills again and luckily she didn’t die this time either. Then we climbed a lil hill and met the van at the top where I created my first wilderness poop of the trip. Then Nancy bombed it down a fun descent and I tried to copy her technique but she was too fast so I caught up to her at the bottom.
We arrived at Middlegate Station (which has a population of ~17!) in the early afternoon and got food, water, ice, and A/C at the Middlegate Station Bar. Matthew ordered a Monster Challenge Burger which, in order to win the highly coveted and exceptionally exclusive Middlegate Station burger eater t-shirt, he had to finish without getting up from the table or throwing up.
He destroyed it in 40 minutes. Nancy also decided to face the monster, and she put up a good fight and defeated the burger, but unfortunately not the fries :( Daniel vanquished his monster burger at the last second before they closed the bar. Nancy then invited Sasha, Fenet, and I for a short bike ride to see the sunset which we later discovered was just a 30 second ride because she just wanted to ride in her iconic blue crocs. Jk — it was a beautiful sunset and a great day overall, although the digestive systems of Matthew, Nancy, and Daniel may not agree…
Bonus Material: here is ranked list of some of the spokes-related things I enjoy and things I do not enjoy
drafting nancy
pretty descents
apple sauce
maltodextrin
pooping in the wilderness
getting soaked by sprinklers at 5:55am