Madison Matthews

Because of this thing where no company can order any spare parts/bikes (Gunner knows what I'm talking about), we had 2 pairs of shoes that can't get fixed. The one pair were the red S-works Specialized shoes that my dad gave me. I wore them at the end of last year and this spring until I broke the boa a week before the relay. $10 gets you a replacement kit, but since Specialized can't get any, we're getting store credit. Same with my dad's other S-works shoes. He switched over to Sidi so we got more store credit. With my dad's shoes, we were able to trade them for a pair of new S-works in a 43. And today I got to try them out. They fit your foot like a slipper, and I found some old Shimano insoles to put in them cause I have weird feet. Hopefully they hold up nicely and don't break. Specialized puts all their money into weight savings, while companies like Sidi offer every replacement part you could think of, including spare treads for when you wear out yours. They're heavier, but unless you rip them, they will last a lifetime. There's a really slippery bridge when you're entering the forest, and on our way back to the house, we passed a car that had flipped over. There's been a lot of accidents on this bridge, but I'd never seen any of them. The car slipped off the road and drove up onto a bank, where it flipped over sideways back onto the road. The driver was alright, thankfully.