First Day

The start of the ride and the first state line crossing.

Today's ride started at 7:15 in Champaign, IL and ended at 2:15 in Crawfordsville, IN. with an hour stop. Lunch was toasted ham and cheese sandwich, apple pie and a huge Coke in Cummington, IN. The scenery was huge farms of corn and soybeans.

It was a good ride mostly flat 79 miles, with about 800 feet gain in elevation, I averaged 15.5 mph going against 7 to 9 mph headwinds. I made good time until 11 , when it started to get VERY HOT, I poured water on my head and the head cover was dry in 10 minutes.

The only mishap was a small crash at mile 42, my group of 5 riders stopped for the border cross from IL to IN. The two ladies took off and the first man started and realized he had a flat tire and stopped abruptly and then the second man and I crashed into him. A few scrapes and bruises later we were up and on the road again.

Tomorrow ride is shorter so we will start an hour later.

This is from a phone call this evening, too many people are on the hotel computer, so this is posted by Ann.