Day 26, Why do 50 miles when you can do 90?

BOOM SHAKA LAKA,   I have to just say it was a great day to be on the bike.  The weather was really nice the hills were not as bad as we thought they would be and we rode an extra 40 miles which means that tomorrow will be a shorter day then planned.  What could be better.

Well let me tell you, first off Kyle was back on the bike and rolling like it was day 10 ( no one is rolling like it is day one).  We all had smiles on our faces, jokes to tell and good roads to ride.  We anticipated some long steep climbs but what we found was only two really long steep climbs and then some rollers.  Don't get me wrong the hills still got the heart rates up and the were tough but not as bad as i anticipated.  Surprisingly too we had some fun down hills with S Curves that could be taken at about 25 to 30 mph.  The only sad part of the morning was all of the burnt woods we rode through, but with fire comes new life and from what a rancher was telling Les ( our bus driver) the grass is already coming up.
We road until noon, which put us at 40 of the planned 50 miles for the day,  after lunch we decided to keep rolling past our destination of Kent.  Once we turned onto I10, yes the interstate, we were blessed with an amazing tailwind.  At one point Kyle was beside me not pedaling and was doing 29 mph.  We were moving along so we just kept going all the way to Van Horn, TX.  Two good biking days in a row what a blessing.

In all today we covered 91 miles and still made it into camp an hour and a half earlier then we have been over the last week.  What a difference it makes to get done this early.  We can eat relax do our blogs and not be in a rush.  I hope that tomorrow we are just as fortunate.

Lesson for the day:  Courage is not just looking something difficult in the face and trying it.  It trying it knowing you may fail.  To many times in life we look at things and say I can't do that it is to hard, or that is just not my thing.  Why not start looking at things and saying hey I should try that and if I don't succeed no big deal at least I attempted it.  You never know you may do things you never thought you could do.

Special note:  For all of those athletes out there who do things in the face of adversity and can walk away with a smile on their faces no matter what the outcome I think you understand what I am saying and I congratulate you for pushing yourselves.