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Today’s average speed was 21.3 km and the total distance travelled,  90.2 km, was completed in a total of 4 hours and 14 minutes (not including stop times). I can definitely say I’m feeling the tailwinds from the west. Yeah!!

Working as a team is so important to ensure the safety of everyone in communities we travel through, and for the safety of the team. Doug, Bertha, Lynne, and Chris are in constant communication with one another through the use of two-way radios. The radios come in handy – especially when we cross merging lanes, get separated at traffic lights, and go down and up hills to ensure appropriate distances are being kept between the hand cycle and the support vehicles. As well, the radios come in handy when there are oversized vehicles on the road. They allow the team to assess when it’s appropriate to move, and when to pull aside so other passing vehicles can get by.

Thanks team for safely navigating us through the City of Edmonton and on to the town of Tofield, where we arrived this afternoon.  After a BBQ dinner in the RV at a local campsite (awesome porkchops by the way, Doug), we met Deb Dueck, who is a town councillor here in Tofield, as she passed by on an evening walk.  Deb gave us a very warm welcome – the kind you can only get in a small town. 

Cycle to Walk will present at a local school tomorrow morning before a full day of cycling towards Vegreville, AB later on. Talking with kids about Cycle to Walk, polio, and the very real possibility of ending it forever is very fulfilling for me.  I look forward to each and every time we get to share our message with kids – many of whom who’ve been lucky enough to never have heard of polio before.  Fifty years ago, that wasn’t the case in Canada.  We can’t forget that.

The weather was beautiful today, hovering a little over 23 degrees. Since the campaign began 33 days ago, I have drank about 24 litres of Gatorade mixed with nearly 71 litres of water, totalling about 95 litres of fluids while riding.  That intake is only going to increase as the weather warms up.

Hopefully, the wind will stay at our backs, and the prairie sky will stay blue.  Today was an amazing day!