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Playing the Numbers game. Zanesville, OH 6/2/2010

Short day!  We ate a very nutritious breakfast of pizza and soda.  The mood in the morning was very relaxed and not rushed.  We ended up leaving at about 7:45am- a little later than we planned.  67 miles!  What took us so long was making biking groups.  Five random groups of five people.  I was paired with Kyle, Michell, Jordan and Pricilla.We headed off on out journey down US 40W to Zanesville.  About a mile in, Kyle's chain twisted and made his bike not rideable.  We called the van as we struggled to fix his chain.  Instead of two groups waiting on Kyle's bike, we traded members from our group to swap with the group that had someone who was more knowledgeable about chains.  Through a very fair game of rock paper, scissors- I reigned supreme and jumped n the group to continue riding with Nate, Greg, Jill and Kevin.Along the way we stopped a few times.  Once was at a very scenic hill and the next was at a dam.  We met the maintenance man of the dam and he showed us the meachanisms by which the dam was run by.  Pretty cool.  I was amazed by Nate's man talk to convince the maintenance to show us the machines.During the route we hit rain.  This was my first rain experience ont he ride.  Lucky!  My jersey will never be as clean as it once was.Jill's knee began to hurt about four miles away from the stayover.  I was very happy with how she really pushed it all the way to Zanesville.The church we stayed at was very accommodating.  the room we are sleeping in is more of a living room.  Here we are watching Little Women, ate lasagna, and played ukur.  What age are we?We weren't allowed to go outside after nine because of the neighborhood we were in.  Not like I had anything planned.Right before bed, I got a haircut.  From Conor.  Maybe he should rethink his career path.  I'm keeping the beard until Chicago.  Maybe.  There are some on the team who aren't very happy with it.The rain made this room smell like wet, musky bikers.  It is rancid.  Hopefully I can sleep through the smells.