big climb tomorrow

nadia - tom cruise was not with katie holmes when i saw her. if i can find a thrift store, i can promise that they have or can have a mug with your name on it.

literally an up and down day. started off in montrose with a 15 or so mile climb then descended to climb again for another 12-15 or so miles. really not all that bad overall with some fun descents. then lunch and an easy 25 more miles to finish around 66 miles at western state college of colorado in gunnison. andrew and chris led the charge for most of the day but had to leave back to ohio after lunch. pretty cool little college that provided us with food, shower, and a place to stay. had a great lecture given by kem, van, and bobby that, unfortunately, didn't reach all that many people. then had a long group meeting about what was going well and what we can do better as a group. people had great ideas for improvement and an overall positive energy from the group.

tomorrow we head to salida as we go through our largest climb thusfar going from somewhere in the 7000 ft range to almost 11300 ft as we cross the continental divide (point in the country where if rain falls on one side, it theoretically will go to the pacific ocean and if on the other side, will go to the atlantic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_divide).

time is flying, three weeks we will be back in ohio. one month from now is our last event in washington, d.c. in two months i will be living and working in chicago. wow.