KGlaze Week 1

Mannnn, I don't even know what to say about this first week.

i really like this house

It's been something. Rundown: it's Day 9, we've biked around 350 miles so far. We're staying with a wonderful host in Radford, Va who let us use his car and eat all his food and COFFEE.  I'm feeling good. Up till now, I have not been feeling good.

On Day 2, we landed in Ashland, VA in a thunderstorm, set up our tents, and it was actually the worst I've felt in years. I was shaking from dehydration, sunburn, and fresh with a stomach thing that I must've stolen from Dylan, and was pretty mentally devastated from it. On Day 2 I thought I would already have to take a day off. I was pretty miserable, haha. Everyone kept saying "what an experience this is" and I was too sick and down to think that saying was cute. I just wanted to feel better. (But now that I'm feeling good, I can already look back and be like, "LOL I was a little quiet sad boy!")  BUT with a little help from my friends, I rallied through four days of stomach catastrophes making me wake up dizzy and made it. If I was alone, I definitely would've taken a day off. Moral of the story: people are good, friends are good, drink water till it hurts.

This week of riding has been beautiful. Western Virginia is absolutely gorgeous as we've spent the last five days biking through some serious rolling hills. It's crazy biking through all of this and looking in every direction and seeing something beautiful. (I wish I could make that last line sound more poetic but whatever) On day 6 we spent all day climbing up to and on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I coasted at about 5 mph all day listening to The Books and all the ambient nature-y music I could find and felt something good.

  

Campsite in Catawba, VA

Our legs are super tired and we're looking forward to our day off either tomorrow in Wytheville or the next day in Damascus. I've been super surprised and blown away by the hospitality we've seen so far. We've only had to for real camp 3 times so far. We've had two amazing families open their houses to us, a volunteer fire department, a church, and the cookie lady- a legend on the TransAM trail.

Day 9! Feeling good mentally.We'll see how my legs feel in an hour. WEEEEE

KODYYY

Chris

on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Stealth camp at Virginia Military Institute

awhh yeah