Hi everyone! Welcome to day 22 of our ride. Today we said goodbye to Chicago and hello to biking again. We had a 67 mile very hot day, with temperature getting as high as 100 degrees. For this reason, we decided to start biking an hour earlier than usual so we started a little after 6 AM. And even at that time it was already sweaty, sticky, and very hot. As an extra challenge we mostly biked on extremely busy roads getting out of Chicago suburbs, and most of us got the stress of our lives biking on roads like this. Thankfully, everyone made it through just fine. Speaking of everyone… We had two very special riders with us today - Lucas’s dad and Matt W’s dad! They did amazing on this riding day full of busy roads and heat, so big props to them.
The dad group
The last 10 miles of the ride were as per usual the hardest, only this time mostly because of the heat. The heart rates were up, the bodies were sweaty, and we were all so ready to jump into a lake, finally! And finally, we did. The water was refreshingly cool after a long, hot, and sweaty day like this, so some of us stayed in the water for a little longer than was strictly necessary.
After the jump, we got to our stayover at Episcopal Church of the Holy Covenant in Lake Geneva, got showers at a YMCA, and dinner provided by the church. Of course, after dinner it was decided to take a group trip to a nearby ice cream shop. A group of us then went to explore some local souvenir shops and then took about a million pictures.
Surveillance cam selfie
And this concluded our day 22. Tomorrow promises to be a very similar day full fo heat, so another early wakeup awaits us.
-Valerie