This morning I played leapfrog with different groups for the first 4ish miles before I finally settled in with Hannah, Pope, Jay, and Joey. Just after crossing the state line, we passed the REI that I had given a large portion of my day off to drive folks to so I laughed a bit at the irony of how much that trip changed my day and how naturally we were now passing it. Woot.
Soon after, we found ourselves facing a gravel road when Dan drove up and told us that lunch would be about 12 miles past where we were expecting the last possible option to be. We nommed on some snacks and hit the ground running. (By "hit the ground" I mean the literal form). Just after Jay and Mike got over a hill, my bike tire hit a huge rock that caused me to fall pretty hard. I came out unscathed and no one saw it so I caught up to the guys and went on out merry way.
Somewhere along the way, we picked up Connor, adding lots of humor to our trip. When we realized how stereotypical Kansas our ride was, we busted out some Wizard Of Oz tunes. Wondering about stereotypical Kansas? Here:
Miles and miles of fields. Yippee.
Once we reached Lawrence, we hit a hill that I believe could be the steepest hill in KS, and then when we learned of a bike shop in town and all chose to face the hill again.
At the bike shop, my life completely changed. I talked with a genius about my rotated femur woes, and she talked me through a solution. Now my leg can kick out to its naturally rotated state rather than stay abnormally straight all day. I rode all around town testing it out, and I'm already noticing a difference. On my ride around, I ran into Tennessee street, so now I can say that I biked through TN as well (and be completely lying, but whatever. It was fun). 
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