Saturday I rode my bike with 5 friends from Chicago to Milwaukee. Just a touch under 100 miles (no biggie, I did an official century a couple weeks ago). I felt fantastic, way better than when I did the same ride last year. Even had enough energy to stay awake after dinner for some beers at the hotel bar. 6 people, 100 miles, no flats or mechanicals, though 2 people got bad heat rash.

Had a lot of fun trying to take action shots while I was riding.



Sunday we almost got stranded in Milwaukee - in years past we've always taken Amtrak home with no issues, but apparently there was some 24hour alleycat in Milwaukee that same weekend. So we got to the station and they had no bike boxes left, and wouldn't let us check the bikes without boxes. Eventually though, the super helpful ticket agent made some calls and we had to sign liability waivers but they let us just put our bikes in the baggage car ourselves right from the platform. The bikes made it unscathed and we didn't have to pay to check them because they felt bad about being out of boxes. Score!

Oh! And of interest to this forum, we took a couple mile detour to check out the Kenosha velodrome. There were a few folks training, including these guys on a tandem track bike (which I had no idea existed). It was so cool!