Our photographer @jkendi works hard, rests hard. Also, thanks @polerstuff for the awesome orange bidons! (at Gymnastics Center For The Lethargic)
LIOTR Stage 14
When we see these wind turbines it’s either really good news or really bad news. For the last 200 miles or so it has been the latter - a pretty consistently difficult headwind. At least our days have been a little shorter in terms of miles if not hours. (at Near Jackson, MN)
The Plains
Sometimes when things get monotonous it helps to break the day down into chunks. So today we’re not doing one 128 mile ride with a 20mph headwind, we’re doing four 32 mile rides, each with a 5mph headwind.
Leave It On The Road
LIOTR Stage 12
Racing the sun. Losing. Not caring. We rode 185 miles through South Dakota today.
Riding the Badlands
One last shot of us riding through Badlands National Park. Tomorrow we’ve got a 185 mile ride on tap, ending in Mitchell, SD. When we’re done we’ll be officially halfway through the ride. Crazy.
LIOTR Stage 11
We got to climb the Badlands and it was awesome.
These guys
We pull up at the end of a 154 mile day to find our support crew have settled in to the hotel nicely. (at Kadoka, SD)
Stage 11 - Badlands, SD
Never talk politics in the team car
Stage 11 - roadside attractions in South Dakota. Much debate in the LIOTR team car - is the guy on the left supposed to be Rumsfeld or JFK?