Day 4 - Odessa to Spokane (Gonzaga)

This is the last ride before we get our first rest day and my body needs the r&r. Over 300 miles in 4 days can take a toll on a persons body. Ed and I grouped up with, starting from the left, Jim, me, joe, steven, rueben and chad, not pictured is Noah. Jim, a pint-sized chicago school teacher, can hammer it out, but wants to slow the pace down just a little bit to teach the other inexperienced riders to learn how to ride together safely and effectively.

Only 40 more miles to our rest day in Spokane
(Left to Right - Noah, Ed, Joe and Jim (yellow))
this is not an optical illusion, noah is that big and
jim is that small

yesterday, noah ed and i ate at subway. Noah inhaled his footlong while ed and i barely managed to eat half of our 6 incher. Typically, ed eats anything in front of him and i've seen him eat 10 hot dogs and was still hungry. So i know what ed can do. So i instigated and challenged noah and ed to a hot dog eating contest. Well word got out and now we have more than 5 guys who want in on it. My money is still on Ed because it's the small asian kids who can out eat 200lb+ white guys. Hot Dog eating contest will be held on the fourth of july of course. It won't be as big as Coney Islands, but just as entertaining, i'm sure. Right before we got to Gonzaga we saw a Sonic and i couldn't wait another 2 1/2 hours before dinner, so i ordered a 2 extra long chili dogs, an oreo sonic blast with extra oreos, a large limeade with strawberries and ed ordered, of course, hot dogs. He practiced on his technique and found that dipping in strawberry limeade isn't that great and eating it normally is easier for him. 4 hot dogs later, we went to dinner at the gonzaga cafeteria where he had 5 plates of pizza, bbq chicken, rice pilaf, green beans, jello, and cheesecake. He then carries his tray filled with only scraps and bones, slams it in noah's face and says, " you better eat up boy cuz you're going down".