Hiya cycling fans!
What a day! It started off like any other day this week, ice the water and gatorade for the riders to fill their bottles, load luggage into truck, drive away… Well, there was a Truck detour on our route today- everyone else was fine, but I got sent out and around and back on an excursion that kept me behind the pack all the way to Rest Stop 1, and I’m typically just shy of mid pack by then. Hurry and rush as I might, a shortcut here and no stop for supplies there weren’t enough to get me back on schedule and the first two riders arrived before I’d even unlocked the cargo doors on the truck.

While it took a whole lot of hurrying, and some help from the cyclists and a couple of the volunteers who came in early to help, I finally got caught up by the time roughly the first third of the riders finished. Their assistance actually gave me a chance to take a break and rest an increasingly sore knee- that turned into a couple short naps that gave me the energy to get through all the hectic stuff that followed… Final night dinner and awards ceremony, finding “The Rock”, digging out the Cornhole stuff, the raffle prizes, the Kokomo Bullshirt contest, reloading the truck for overnight security… The last night is a lot of fun, but a labor of love.

We managed to get everything done at the reasonable hour of 9:30 or so, and then it was a few needed deep breaths, some trash duty, and now, updating you.

Tomorrow is our last day, and then we all head home to you, our loved ones. I can’t speak for the person you lent us this week, but I’m going to sleep all day Saturday… And I’m going to sleep right now, too.

Goodnight Sports Fans,
Keep the wind at your backs and the downhills in front of you,
GearMan