Day 54 Kalamazoo, MI to Lansing, MI Today was not a fun day lol

So today we woke up at 5:30am and went downstairs and had our breakfast which was the last crew chief breakfast for a while. We then got ready and hopped on our bikes for East Lansing.  The ride was really crappy. It was freezing out (Well not literally) and then it started to pour down rain.  I was riding with Kevin and we rode about 35 miles and then we racked. Kevin racked because he rides with a broken pelvis and he hit a big pothole and caused him a lot of pain. I racked because my hands were so cold that I couldnt close my fist so I had trouble braking and shifting. So we hopped in the vans and helped crew for a little bit.

One of the crew then came and picked us up from where we were at and took us to lodging which was the Courtyard Mariott in Lansing, MI.  We got a room and I showered and changed and then realized that I was about to have an even crappier day. I would get to go on an adventure for my clothes.  I noticed that my blue team shirts were not in my Thule and then I realized that I had forgotten my clothes in the dryer at WMU.  I talked to my PM and he said that I could pay for gas and take one of the vans back to get them later

So I just put on some other shirt for now and waited for the cyclists to arrive. There was a little bit of a mixup and some people made a wrong turn and ended up going the scenic route and put another 15 miles on this ride lol.  We got the last two pacelines in and then waited for the remaining pacelines to mozy on in.  We had two ride alongs today our crew chief Mark and our PR guy Dan rode along.  Mark had already done Gear Up Florida so he was a pretty good cyclist but Dan had not really ever ridden on a bike before but they both finished which was awesome

Once everyone was in we had our dinner which was sponsored by a few Pi Alphas and their families. We had some sloppy joes and chips and pop and all kinds of other good stuff.  We also got to read some letters that were written by JOH riders two years ago and then we wrote some of our own for next years riders.

After that we took a picture and then I set out on my journey of the day.  I hopped in a van and drove the 160 mile round trip back to WMU to go get my clothes. It was long and boring but it was a nice adventure and it was also a nice lesson for me to make sure I dont ever forget things like that again.  I was kind of rushing back to make it to dinner and I actually made it about 2 mins after everyone else pulled up for dinner so I thought I did pretty well.

We had dinner sponsored by the Beta Xi chapter of Pi Kappa Phi the Central Michigan chapter which Spencer and Jeremy went/go to.  We had hot dogs and hamburgers and what not. We chatted it up with them and then headed back to lodging.  I got all of my stuff organized and did a few videos.

There is some issue with uploading videos from my phone's internet it doesnt upload all the audio so I had to reupload a few Days 46-48 but they all work now

Ok time for bed

Peace, Love, and Laundrys
White "DJ" Doug