Day 4

Day 4 started out at Blue Licks Battleground State Park. Where the last major battle of the Revolutionary took place. Interesting history of how the British persuaded the American Indians to help them drive out the white settlers that were invading their land.

Battle of Blue Licks

I started off the day in the SAG van helping with driving while Brian captured some video. I was just too tired to ride the entire distance to Louisville (106 miles). I knew I better save some energy if I was going to ride into town. So I waited until midway at lunch time.

Peggy drove out from Jeffersonville IN and joined me on the tandem since Steven could not be there. We had a lot of fun riding together. She and I had only been on the tandem one other time before and she did well, but I was not sure how she would do on a long hilly ride.

So thinking I was being smart, I decided we would take off early before the rest of the group and let them catch up with us. Well it turned out that we were extremely fast on the flats and down hills but slow on the uphills. This averaged out pretty well, but it meant that the group never caught us. We were navigating by a ride sheet (sheet of written directions with mileage). The other 2 groups had one person with a GPS. The ride sheet turned out to have a slight mistake. So Peggy and I got to have some bonus mileage, about 12 to 15 miles of very hilly terrain. So we did not get to make it to the Dairy Queen stop in time to get anything. The other riders where there and ready to roll on to Crestwood and get home.


We joined up with the group this time so we would not get any more bonus miles. Here is a picture of us riding in a Paceline. The person in front is working the hardest, blocking the wind for the rest of the people in the line. When the lead person gets tired they move out to the left and let the group pass and then join in on the rear. Each rider taking a turn up front. Here is a picture of us with Jan John expertly pulling off the front after her turn leading and dropping to the back of the pack. This is down very slowly so that you don't have to work to hard to get positioned back onto the end of the line.

It was a great relief to finally arrive in Crestwood and know that we got to go home and sleep in our own beds for the next 2 nights.