Today I’m heading down to Burlington Iowa to do a 95 mile road race at 3:15.  I’m not that into the race, but need to race, so that is what I’m doing.  Yesterday I got an ear ache, maybe from a bug that flew in my right ear riding, so I’m a little off-kilter.  I stopped at a pharmacy on the way down yesterday, but didn’t have any luck in retrieval/removal.

I’m going to take these races day by day.  I’m going to have to get feeling a lot better than I am now to race 4 days in a row.  Especially if it rains.

Okay, here are some photo from riding around the Driftless area of Wisconsin yesterday. Wonderful place to ride bikes.

The whole area is Amish. Really cool farm and old school farming methods.

Lots of dairy cattle around.

These ducks seemed nearly tame.

Baby alpaca are very cute.

Pretty normal Wisconsin truck bumper after a few years in the salt.

Wisconsin replacement bumper.

Kent and Trudi climbing on gravel yesterday.

Me, Katie and Kent after the ride yesterday.