Austin City Limits

We are in the Austin metropolitan region after a little over 400 land miles this month. We are working our way through Texas, only 240 miles until we go international.

We passed through Oklahoma City early on in the week. Did you know that Oklahoma City went from a population of zero to a population of 10,000 within a 24 hour period? We passed through Norman shortly thereafter. Norman is the home of Oklahoma University, which of course is the alma mater of the one and only Stacy Dales. She is right up there with Brittany Spears, and Tara Reid in competition for blonde celebrity that Becky hates the most.

Moving south, we fought the traffic in Dallas, survived, and continued down to Waco, home of Chris, Megan, and Mad Dog Ruf. Waco was named after a local indian tribe (Hueco), and it was also the original name of the beverage Dr. Pepper (which was formulated in a Waco soda shop).

As noted, we came to rest within the Austin city limits. Seems like a great place to hang for a while before we make our push into Mexico.

This week was out best water week yet (19.9 miles this week, 51.1 miles total) with great help from Mike Wente, Lauren, and Renee. Also, I'd like to recognize some of the Lanesboro folk: Mark "Speedo" Peterson of Iron Nads III t-shirt fame logged 9 bike miles, Dan "I wish I was related to Clay" Peterson put in 12 miles running and 20 on the bike, and Mike "The baby maker" Lukkason took a break from impregnating his wife Dee and put in 8 miles running this week.

Good work by everyone again.