“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, ‘Okay, this is the limit’. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further.” –Ayrton Senna Content and Images courtesy of Alex Roberts As I start this, it’s been a week since Trans Iowa. Sitting on my couch, I can’t honestly say I wish it was this time last weekend. At this point, I was 11 hours in, and fighting a headwind. After making great time to Checkpoint 1, the wind was starting to raise serious doubts about a finish. But we’ll get to that. We rolled into Grinnell, Iowa just after noon on Friday, April 25th. The hotel said check-in was not until 3, and the pre-race ‘Meat Up’ didn’t start until 4. We hopped on the bikes to spin out the legs and find the start. We found the start just in front of Bikes To You in the charming downtown area. We met the shop owner Coop who was the