Between July 15 and August 9, 2007 I will be riding my bicycle on the PacTour Northern Transcontenial Route. This is a 26 day tour across America starting from Everett, Washington and finishing in Williamsburg, Virginia. This takes a riding an average of 131 miles a day with the longest days being 166 and the shortest days being 80 miles.
This will be my longest day after day human powered trip so am interested in how I will react and manage this event. In the summer of 2006 I spend 20 days on the Lower Mississippi River paddling and camping with no rest days so that was kind of a perpatory trip for this one. When traveling via kayak on the river we averaged 40 miles a day compared to our daily average on this bike trip of 131. On the bike trip we get to stay in motels as compared to camping on the beaches and bathing in the river.
Riding across America is one of the "things to do" on my list so I am very excited at this date, July 3, 2007, to be in my final stages of preparation. The preparation for this ride started this past winter when I signed up and then began the process of adapting a personal training program to get ready. During the winter my mainstay training was hiking uphill on Vail mountain twice a week from January through March. Hike up then hike down turned out to be great for the legs, lungs, and mental discipline to always keep moving if you want to get to your goal.
I am doing this ride with a very talented and good friend Hooker Lowe from Vail, Colorado.
During the trip I will try to add postings to this blog and if that process doesn't work then will add posts after the ride.
June 24, 2010
Since I am getting ready for another attempt to ride across America I am going to add some more posts to this 2007 attempt.
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