This past weekend was pretty standard at first... on Saturday I cycled 100 miles and then consumed about 8,000 calories. The weather was unreal for January! I can't believe that it was 70 degrees and that I am still able to train in shorts every day. The warm weather made me happy and so I rode the 100 miles faster than I have since I started training in late October; 5 hrs 48 mins.
The morning session was actually quite different than usual because David Strauss, the man who will be making a full length documentary about the Bike for Burundi trip, came out to shoot some video. It was quite strange to have a man driving closely to me with a camera strapped onto the roof. Every now and then he would zip off into the distance and then I didn't know when I would see him again. One time I was having trouble finding him and then I realized he had his camera set up in a crop field about 200 yards from the road. Ha. Since I am not used to having someone video anything that I do, I thought it was hilarious to be followed by David. Every time I passed him I started laughing. I suppose I am a bit camera shy. At lunch he interviewed me for a few minutes and then he left. He said he is not sure what the focus of the documentary will be, but that he will gather lots of footage and will then decide on a story.
Later on Saturday night I went to have dinner with Bonnie Turco, the woman who is organizing Bike for Burundi, and her husband. They were great and they gave me the Garmin GPS that will be attached to my bike during the trip. The only problem is that the map software we will use to link our maps to the GPS requires a computer with a CD player. My computer died a few months ago, so I realized now was the time to buy a new computer. Bonnie had a little computer that she wanted to give me, but then we saw that it did not have a CD player. Bummer! On Sunday morning I told the people at breakfast that after church I was going to buy a computer. When I came back for lunch, right before leaving to go downtown to buy a computer, Jack Rankin, the weekend manager at St. Christopher, said that he and his wife Ardy wanted to give me one of their barely used computers so that I can blog during the bike ride and have a computer to use afterwards. What?!?! Huge blessing! I was extremely excited. Later in the night my buddy Daniel Dunn donated an Under Armour cold gear shirt and a pair of nice cold weather tights for the ride. Whoo hoo! This past weekend was great was a great! I can already see tons of ways that God is using people to bless this trip.
Less than 5 weeks until the ride.
I love that cycling 100 miles and consuming 8,000 calories is a "standard" Saturday for you. Awesome! So glad the Lord is blessing you and providing for your needs in this season. I can remember picking you up on crutches at the end of the summer to drive to camp for the regatta. I'm so glad to see the Lord has brought you this far and has worked out all these details for you to be able to participate in His work. Praying for you, bud!
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