Atlas was incredible!! Laison and Lamson (I call him Teo) came out to ride with me in the morning. After cleaning up the gym, changing and grabbing my bike, i saw Laison walk in and tell me Teo had my stuff outside.

So I left Running Brushy Creek Middle School and out in front of the cafeteria, I found Teo armed wiith a bag of goodies and even better....CHAMOIS BUTT'R!!!! If you cycle, you definitely know why I'd need that! Haha

So then I went out and saw my mom dropping off my brothers' bikes so I went and said hi to her and we talked a bit. Then I was called back inside the gym to clean up and help carry items to the trailers.

Before I knew it, I was off on the Atlas Ride!! it was ammazing! I took off with the team and then pulled into a driveway to wait for my brothers. When they came rolling by and I was off with them.

We rode well all up to the 2nd rest stop. My brothers were killin it! And we stopped by the BEST REST STOP everrrr!! music, dancing, smoothies, pictures, etc. It was amazing!

But then....came the decision to do either 50 ot 70 miles... We chose 70 because it felt like a good idea. But soon after...we realized...maybe not so much. Laison having played three basketball games the night before and only sleeping 3 hours and not training? Managed to pull off 40 miles! And then Teo pulled off 50 miles! Impressive!

Kazuyoshi also met up with us at the 2nd stop and decided to ride the 70 miler with us too. AND HE KILLED IT!!! He was pacing with me the whole ride after my brothers dropped out. There was a point where we were averaging 20+ miles an hour! I was very very very impressed!!

Then after all that happened, we rolled into Legato winery out in Lampasas for food and a fancy reception!!

After a quick hose off, we relaxed and enjoyed an AMAZING pasta dinner. There were literally 20 different pasta dishes for us to eat! I <3 CARBS!!!

We then explored the winery. Sheila and I went and explored the vineyards and then we came back to chat with a few other girls. And eventually we went exploring the winery again! It was so much fun!! I got to hang out with some of the Sierra Route girls before the split tomorrow :(

So again, I slept in a hammock (I did in cedar park before the atlas ride too). And got FREEZING COLD at about 3 or 4 in the morning. But I was too lazy to get my sleeping bag :/

When we woke up, we had T4K alumni make us dinner...and here's what happened today:

Thaison and Sarah Video Blog About Day 2:

Video Blog 2 - Thaison & Sarah - 6-7-09 from Thaison Nguyen on Vimeo.

Now here are some of the pictures from today:

Day 1 - Atlas Ride:

Laison:

Day 2 - Lampassas, TX to Brownwood, TX:

Leaving Legato Vineyard & Winery:

Have an amazing day!

>Thaison