Ain't No Rest For The Wicked

It's our second day off!!! 

We got to sleep in until the late hour of 8:30am and we feel like half our day has disappeared.  For comparison, yesterday's wake up was at 4am as we were biking 107 miles in the intense Texas hear to Amarillo.  

Still, here we are, just under halfway through our milage across this country. 

There are 80 days in our summer with Bike & Build and those 80 days are comprised of three types of days: ride days, build days and days off.  

It goes without saying that the bulk majority of our days are ride days, 59 to be exact.  Ride days involve waking up between 4 and 5 in the morning and hitting the road by 6 or 7am.  

Build days are a slight and much appreciated reprieve because we get to sleep in until 6 or 7 then spend the day giving our butts a rest from our bike seats.  Over the course of our trip, there are 17 build days.  

And then there are days off.  In our 80 days on the road, we have a grand total of 4 days off, one in New Orleans, one here in Amarillo, one in the Grand Canyon and one in Yosemite.  

The great thing about days off are that we have no obligations.  Our days are our own and we can dictate what we get to do.  Some of my teammates chose to grab coffee at a coffee shop, some are traveling out to Palo Duro Canyon for a day of hiking and mountain biking, some are relaxing with some redbox movies here at our host site and some are finishing some long-delayed tasks.  

And now I will resume my day with no responsibilities.