Final Post (Rider's Perspective):

The last two days were pretty intense. We did 102.5 miles on Thursday, making me a proud new member of the century club. Because of that Brennan and I were a bit rusty to start Friday morning, but luckily the idea of getting to Wrigley Field and the idea of a hot dog and an ice cold Old Style was the proverbial carrot we were chasing.

The ride into Chicago was mostly all on bike trails which made for a bit of stop and go early on, and a very nice ride once we got about ten miles from downtown. We got lost once when we had to switch trails, but luckily we had a nice older couple who showed us where to go. We weaved our way along the lakeshore trail doing a total of 55 miles yesterday, and making the total for the trip 375 miles...not too shabby.

Brennan (my Portugeuse friend) and I thought about just buying tickets to France to help out Lance, butour presence was needed in Chicago to help our Redlegs to a 12-0 drumming of the little Cubby bears. What a great day, great week, and some great mustaches to top it all off.