Four and a half days and the Iowa Lakes coaching staff have met there goal of biking to Rockford, IL. Now all we have to do is make it back to Spencer.
The trip has been amazing. Although we had anticipated a 400-mile ride to Rockford...we have now biked 460 miles one-way. It was so difficult, but the feeling of jubilation that we felt upon riding out bicycles into Rockford was an amazing one.
As you can see by the picture, we celebrated as if we had just won a regional championship soccer game!
We knew this trip would be very difficult...but, we didn't realize how we would feel when we conquered feats such as riding through the "Stagecoach Trail" in Illinois...or outrunning "Beethoven" the killer St. Benard...or seeing the beauty of the backroads and rivers in American...or crossing the "Mighty Mississip"...etc.
According to my bicycle odometer, I have personally burned over 13,000 calories on my 4 1/2 day ride. Now we are going to enjoy the USA vs. England match today and watch more games at the Watermelon Soccer Tournament...and relax, before departing again on Monday morning to head back home.
We will take a different route on the way back that will lead us through the southern parts of Wisconsin and the possibility of experiencing one of the many Wisconsin Cheese Factories.
We have achieved the first part of our goal by arriving on bike to Rockford...the next step will be arriving back home. Both are feats that many people told us that...we couldn't do.
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