Day 2

You can kind of see the little reflector, but that's Dallas riding in our headlighs probably around 3am!

Saturday morning! Dallas' dad met up with us and brought him an egg biscuit. He was VERY happy:)

Friday was interesting to say the least. We left Opelika about 4:30 and headed up to meet Dallas in Birmingham. Dallas (a friend of mine for about a 100 years now!) was participating in the Heart of the South 500. It started in Birmingham, went up through north Alabama, into North Georgia and back to Birmingham by way of Fort Mountain and Cheaha.

Our job was to be his "Crew" during the night shift, 8pm to 8am. This meant giving him food, drinks, Tums, keeping track of his caloric intake, helping him with any problems on his bike and the hardest thing, keeping him in our headlights the entire time! When we first volunteered, I thought it was going to be so easy, piece of cake, except for the staying awake all night part. However, after missing the first turn a mile into the race, I was beginning to think we were in over our heads a little bit!!

But we did it! Philip ended up driving the whole time (thanks to a 5 Hour Energy) and let me get a few cat naps here and there. We met up with Dallas' dad and another volunteer around 7:30 am close to Resaca, GA and handed him over to them. Honestly though, by that time we were already 200 miles in and I really wanted to help him finish! But I knew my body couldn't handle another 30 hrs so we graciously let his dad take over:)

He finally finished the race around 11am on Sunday, coming in 2nd place!!! We were so proud of him!!!!! He is in a very small club, so to speak, of people that can say they rode 500 conescutive miles without any real breaks (he did stop for a few 30 min power naps, but that was it)!!!!