Today we embarked both on and in our quest for epicness . We decided that as this is the BEAST & FEAST road-trip that we should revisit the site of the original beast and feast. Thus we proceeded to a corner of hell known as jonathan dickinson state park and went to the mountain bike trails with the intent of beasting and then later feasting at Big Apple Pizza. As matt put it it would be "like thanksgiving", he couldn't have been more wrong. we got to the trails and a guy asked if he could join us as his friend just left. We said sure, he looked kinda beastly and we figured it couldn't hurt. as we proceeded i found it incredibly difficult to ride and was excessively tired and couldn't keep up, now I'm at the very least ex-athletic and it didn't make sense until miles into the trail when going over a log obstacle steven pointed out i had a flat front tire. So i had to pick up my bike and carry out of the trail and down the road some until the others brought back a replacement tube.As it turns out the man who had joined our expedition earlier was none other than "Rudy" of Real Deal Bikes. it turns out that when you have a flat tire there's no-one better to be with than a bike shop owner and beastly mountain biker, both of which Rudy is. So the tire was fixed and we rode out and onwards to Big Apple Pizza.

Big Apple Pizza was amazing as usual and we ate to our hearts content and then a little more. As part of the goal was to stretch our stomachs for the impending challenge once i had eaten my fill i decided i would force myself to drink 3 large cups of water in quick succession to do just that.BAD IDEA. Thirty minutes and several dry heaves later we embarked towards Georgia and are currently awaiting the next days trials somewhere around macon.