After escaping some early morning fog, the team has made good pace down the road. We left LeRoy, Illinois in the morning and have already reached our control stops in Bloomington, Illinois, and Kankakee, Illinois. We pulled in to the stop in Kankakee just before 1:00 PM EDT and hope to make it to South Bend by the end of the race day at 5:00 PM EDT. Of course, we hope that the home of the Fighting Irish (Notre Dame) will treat us well despite the fact that we are wearing the colors of one of their biggest football rivals!

Update: We have ended the day in South Bend, Indiana, one block to the west of the Notre Dame campus, and only a few miles west of our control stop. We will spend the night in South Bend before leaving for our next stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan.