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https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7097836192Rode from home down to the Edmonds waterfront which symbolically represents the U.S West Coast...and now onto the East Coast in 34 days. Yikes! Easy ride on familiar roads to the start motel in Everett.
Had a riders meeting at 3:30 with Lon Haldeman outlining the daily schedule/routine. Nothing much has changed from the first PacTour of 11 years ago. This will be 100th time that PacTour has conducted a ride across the country....so they’ve got it down pretty well. Surprisingly there was no mention of the Atomic Clock which rules everything. Maybe it broke down? Only big change noted was a switch from 1.75 liter bottles of soda to 12oz cans. I imagine for Covid reasons so we’ll be going through a LOT of cans....I would say 5 to 8 per day for me alone....especially when it’s above 90f.
Group dinner was at 5:00. Standard fare of chicken or eggplant Parmesan, pasta, rice, salad, etc.
Lots of familiar faces and newbies as well. From the roster there are only 2 riders under 50, with most in the 50 to 65 yo range. Oldest rider, Ernie (who has been on 4 of the 5 previous PacTour rides with me) is the oldest at 74. At 69, there are only 5 or 6 riders order than me....and a couple of those are women. I think there are 8 women out of 36 riders....and one of them is riding a semi recumbent bike.
Well it’s off to bed for a 5am wake up. Don’t know when my roommate Mike is going to show up. He was finishing up some work stuff at 3pm and had to drive north out of Seattle....which is just brutal on a summer Friday afternoon/evening. It’s after 8 now...and im sure he’s going to wake me up at whatever time he gets here.
And so it starts...onwards!
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