Miles:  105.51

Riding Time:  7:51:16

Average Speed:  13.4

Cum. Miles:  3285.28

Today is what they call "Final Exam" day.  It is the Big Ride's last century and it is full of alot of climbing and downhill, both steep, long, and rolling.  As if 100 miles of that wasn't enough, the weather decided that today it would be over 100 degrees with alot of humidity.  It was an extremely hot and sweaty day for everyone and some people weren't able to finish.  Also, I was pretty tired from all the climbing I did yesterday by not taking that bike path. 

Early on into the ride Ane ended up having two blowouts.  The first one we are thinking was just because of too high of a pressure in the heat.  However, the second one, the tire actually came off of the rim before the inner tube blew up.  It kind of blew up in Ane's face because she was bending over it to let the air out before it exploded, but she was too late. She then just changed the tire because she didn't want to take anymore chances with all the hills we would be on the rest of the day.  Last thing you would want would be to go down a hill at 40 plus and have a tire blowout.  Our second breakfast was once again at McDonald's this morning.  We were told that was where the first waterstop was going to be, but it wasnt.  I got charged only .29 cents for an extra hashbrown and the guy charged me for a small coffee when I ordered a medium.  Ben also decided to eat a pancake syrup packet for breakfast.

Today we have been craving slurpee's since the beginning.  The closest we got was a slush puppie from a local pool because once again we didn't pass any 7-11's.  It tasted so good in the extreme heat while we were at the checkpoint and I ended up falling asleep for a few minutes.  I woke up and basically said it was time to go because I didn't really want to take a nap.  We also stopped at multiple gas stations for cold drinks and air conditioning.  It felt so good to go inside them, but then that always made it that much worse when we left the AC.

After that, the only major event really on the rest of the ride today was the fact that I still hadn't completed my goal of 50 MPH, and there was only one mountain left between us and Gettysburg.  Once we got to this mountain, of course it ended up not being a super steep up or down.  I still tried on the way down and I started pedaling hard, and it seemed as if there was a slight headwind.  I got up to maybe like 38 so I slowed down, until the hill got a little steeper.  I started pedaling hard again and this time got up to maybe 42ish.  I slowed down, waited a little bit and gave it one final attempt.  I was pedaling really hard and got up to 46ish.  I was going to stop when I saw in my mirror a big rig truck was coming by in the right lane.  I kept pedaling and as soon as he passed me I tried pedaling even harder and got into his draft.  I felt and instant burst of speed which was awesome, because I only had 3 or 4 more MPH to go.  I kept going till I fell out of his draft when I would have no chance, I looked down, and sure enough my max speed on my speedometer read 49.9 MPH.  You would think a computer would just round up to make the biker feel good, but my computer decided to rip me off .1 MPH.  O well,  it was close, maybe some other time I will find a hill and go 50.

When we got in camp we were surprised by "The Girls" from Bob Jone's office.  They brought all kinds of snacks and treats but I didn't want to eat too much because at that point I was really hungry for a good dinner.  After relaxing for a little and getting cleaned up, we meandered to this Pub and Restaurant for dinner.  Ben and I both had to order the 1 pound bacon cheeseburger, which ended up disappearing pretty quick.  It was very good, as well as my fries, some of Liz's fries, and some of Mary's salad. We didn't really do a whole lot after dinner, everyone was exhausted.  Ben, Liz and I slept outside on the middle school soccer field, there was no bugs, it was cool, but still humid.  Basically what ever body point wasn't under the sheet was cold, and what was under the sheet was sweating.  It was still better than inside though, they were sleeping in the hallways, where it was hot and the lights couldn't be turned off.

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