Today was interesting for me. I started off by getting up at 6:15 AM this morning just to wait till 11:45 AM to ride today. Bountiful Mazda Cycling Club showed up at 8:20 AM ready to help us get things rolling. We had our own group come out for support to pull us home. We had a really nice wind today on our way out to my Aunt Kathy’s house. She was very hospitable. While we were eating lunch, the storm front rolled in and we had a really hard headwind. Thanks to Don and everyone else that stuck with us, I made it through that nasty wind. Then we hit the point of the mountain and lightning started to strike. We had to get into some shelter so we found a building that was under construction and waited for the lightning to pass. We started back on our way and made it to Salt Lake City. 10 miles from Huntsman we stopped at a 7-11 and filled up our bottles and got food and all sorts of goodies. Just after I pulled in, the rain decided it wasn’t done with us so it started to pour. We waited for the pouring to stop and went out in just rain. I made it to Huntsman today and that was my one goal.

Today was a very touching day for me. I had my second cousin Aubri come out to support us. She’s not too far off from my age and she picked up a form of cancer. She went through seven weeks of radiation and therapy to heal it. I was fighting back tears today because it was so good to have it over. I’m not sure how cancer feels but I think I got a glimpse of the pain and suffering that they go through each day. I’m very grateful to Don and Larry and Jeff and especially my dad. Without them, I would probably be just pulling into Delta. I also need to thank Judy and Jim for the support that they provided in the vehicles. Thank you’s go out to everyone for their support. It was much appreciated and thank you to Pete for coming out and helping us out yesterday and the riders that pulled us into Salt Lake City today. I don’t know if they realize how much it means to me because I was hurting from riding the past week. I felt strong today because the “horses could smell the barn” but after the ride into HCI, it was too overwhelming to think to move. I’m looking forward to next year and see what adventures come of it. Thanks again to anyone who helped in this whether it be leaving comments, pulling us around, being support vehicles, coming out and following us on our last day of the ride, etc. I hope that someday soon we will find a cure for cancer because it is a nasty disease.

P.S. If anyone is planning on riding next year, they’d better start training now because I went 1,347 miles in 8 months and that still wasn’t enough.