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Day 72: GET OFF THE BEACH! THE BEAR IS COMING!
Rest Day in South Lake Tahoe — 0 mi, 0 ft Today was an exceedingly rare morning in which the team was slow to get ready and out the door. I’ll go ahead and type out another line so you can read the sarcasm between the lines. As of 11am, I had just woken up. When I walked out, I found Aarushi and Carmen in the hot tub – Drew joined them shortly. Caroline was…
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Day 71: Boat day
Rest Day in South Lake Tahoe, CA — 0 mi, 0 ft This was the day I looked forward to the most, more than any other on the entire trip. Boat day A little while back I heard whispers circulating throughout the team. A boat? In Tahoe? It was true, Nunu’s family booked us a rental boat in Tahoe. This was what motivated me to get out of Nevada. I endured some of the hardest…
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Day 70: The Last Hurrah
Fallon, NV to South Lake Tahoe, CA — 101.4 mi, 5,750 ft Video script: So you know how only a couple of days ago we ended up doing that heinous 200 mile ride overnight that was definitely one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life? I remember at first having a huge adrenaline rush of “WOW we’re biking at night this is so fun” to then feeling so so so sleepy to…
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Day 69: just a biker gang of irresponsible youths
Learning Festival in Fallon, NV — 0 mi, 0 ft Last morning, we woke up in a ditch on the side of highway 50, wearing unwashed day-old bibs, jerseys with an extra layer of funk pressed into the already stained nylon, and I had the privilege of squirting eye drops on contacts so dry they were peeling off my eyeballs. This morning, we woke up in an air conditioned room with a carpeted floor, a…
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Day 68: Oh How am I Gonna Be an Optimist About This
Austin, NV to Fallon, NV — 111.9 mi, 2531 ft Mt. Airy, NV to Fallon, NV — ~95 mi, 2000 ft Contrary to Freytag’s Pyramid (pictured below), which shows a story’s typical narrative structure, this blog starts at the climax of the ride: biking on Highway 50, at night, at 12:00 am. The previous blog explains the reason for our current predicament, but in case you missed it, I’ll give a quick summary. To avoid…
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Day 67: Inside the Mind of One of This Generation’s Greatest Thinkers
Eureka, NV to Austin, NV — 75 mi, 3038 ft ~Mt. Airy, NV — 90 mi, 3698 ft I’ve heard there is much anticipation for this blog to drop, and for good reason. Today I will share with you every single thought I had while biking 90 miles. This might be an incredibly boring blog or it might be the most fascinating one, depending on how much you care about great thinkers and deep philosophers…
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Day 66: POV I’m a Bike
Ely, NV to Eureka, NV — 79.2 mi, 4543 ft The state I am in is a bit hard to describe. I am having the best time of my life and seeing sights I never thought I would get to see, but at the same time, my chains haven’t been lubricated in days. My tires get pumped sometimes, but not every day. My front and back wheel axles both keep coming loose randomly, my left…
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Day 65: The Legend of the Rider in White
Learning Festival in Ely, NV — 0 mi, 0 ft (or 36.44 mi, 2254 ft) Today, we woke up strewn across the floor of the library of a high school in Ely, Nevada approximately 5 miles away from a 0% contained wildfire. Certainly not what I foresaw for my life if you asked me a couple of years ago. We need to be at the learning festival location by 9am for our learning festivals. We…
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Day 64: Is something burning?
Baker, NV to Ely, NV — 61.7 mi, 4469 ft I woke up super sick, unprepared to bike. It was the first day where I would have to SAG on a non-mandatory basis. Or was it? The potential savior of my pride was a wildfire that was blowing smoke into the valleys through which we needed to bike. Nunu transported me to Ely as the rest of the team monitored the air quality. As it…
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Day 63: Romanticizing the Mundane
Milford, UT to Baker, NV — 84.9 mi, 4,539 ft Video script: Today was the day we would cross into our second to last state of the whole summer, Nevada! We were biking from Milford, Utah to Baker, Nevada over 84.9 miles and 4,539 ft of elevation. I was not particularly looking forward to today’s ride since it predicted a lot of climbing and possible strong headwinds but when was I ever? To be honest,…
