"Hey, Chain Reaction- lets kick butt"

ladies and gentlemen-

The torch has been passed- ADAM BERG won street sprints last year without a problem. This year however he had hsi work cut out for him. Even though Adam didnt have war paint on his face- he came to WIN and kick some butt.

James however pushed it a half a wheel harder than Adam.

Great race see it on the videos- James

Woke up at about 6am here to go get some grub- (really never happened) I dont know why-

This year we have teams (its a team of 13 of us) we actually were able to name our teams- (were Chainreaction)
Jim Sauls came up with it-

We rolled out today at about 8:40am (the weather was about 40 degrees) and yes ALL of us overdressed I think-

I mean we had full blown shoe covers, to skull caps, it was great with all of the chicago thinking behind it thinking the weather followed us from Chi town-

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So we leave our wonderful Eco-Lodge and are hungry so we go and get gas and go to something different- DENNYS-

We really didnt eat much for dinner yesterday (even though I know that Rob E was (and is always hungry) so we went in and ate like KIngs........ until about 20 minutes later realzing that the amount of food we ate could have fed a small village in Ethopia. And we gave a look to one another, puzzled- as if we didnt know what was wrong-

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OK-

So after leaving our great hotel (Super 8) which from a scale of 1-10 was a 7 on the scary level. We left around 8am and continued thru Nebraska to Colorado where the mountains came. And thats where Rob wanted to start driving the mountains-

the mountains- is he nuts, this is NOT a bicycle- you go faster in a car than you do a bike. I was scared- between hi eating ALL the time, and looking at cars on his side of the window- I needed to look up to make sure he was paying attention.

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Day 1-

We started off around 8am (and in traffic of course) and started counting EACH and every mile and second as they went by.

A few things I learned abount Rob Ehrman-

1 He commutes EVERYWHERE in Chicago- but yet HATES traffic and tells you which lane you should be driving in.
2. He eats 200 calories, EVERY 4 min- I mean he has his fist in his mouth every other second. boy can that guy eat.
3. He likes to listen to books on tape (which I didnt mind too much)

other than that we drove into… Continue