Today we finally hopped on the bikes! Woke up bright and early at 6am and as much as we’d been made to believe it’s warm in California, it was not this morning. That combined with a beautiful 12 mile practice ride made for quite the morning. Nothing beat climbing up that practice hill and then flying down the other side of the mountain only to be greeted with a stellar view of the Golden gate Bridge that we will be biking over very soon. After that we had a sponsored lunch and then went straight to a friendship visit where we played a basketball game with all the people there. We got destroyed with a solid scoreboard of 83 to 16. Although it didn’t help they had an absolute sharpshooter named Derek who, honestly, is one of the best 3 point shooters I’ve seen period. After that we had some programming and then headed back to lodging. I think we’re all just gearing up and getting excited for what’s to come, with just one more practice