Garmin data....
Check out my cycling activity on Garmin Connect. #beatyesterday
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7104135115
Relive video...
Check out PAC Tour 2021 Day 1 Everett to Sedro-Woolley on Relive!
https://www.relive.cc/view/vrqDQ7rygLv
Good weather day today with cloudy conditions and cool temps (50’s) for the first 3 or so hours. Started out at 6:15 in order to catch to 7:00 ferry to Whidbey Island from Mukilteo. I’m very familiar with roads on Whidbey having cycled there home countless times over the years. It’s easily one of my favorite places to ride given the varied terrain and relatively quiet roads.
Unfortunately one of our riders (Ernie, the oldest participant at 74yo) came down off his bike while descending on a section of roadworks that was laid out in fine gravel in preparation to be chip sealed. He apparently got into some loose gravel and came down. He had to be ambulanced off the Island to Everett with the last report breaking his collar bone and 6 ribs as well as a fracture to his C2 vertebrae along with a lacerated liver. Obviously he was in a lot of pain. This happened with only about 20 miles into our ride across the country! And he had already put in over 9,000 miles of training since the beginning of the year. I feel especially bad as I’ve ridden with Ernie on all my prior 5 PAC Tours. The only saving grace is that Ernie is from the Seattle area so he’s already close to home.
But the ride goes on and the weather got clearer and warmer with temps in the 70’s. Perfect temps that we’ll long for in the coming days and weeks as it gets hotter as we go eastward.
Don Moe who dropped out of the ride a couple of weeks ago due to recent emergency eye surgery (he’s fine now but not in endurance cycling shape) came to lunch and rode with Mike & I after lunch for 20 or so miles. It was good to see him and try to talk him into joining us somewhere east of S. Dakota. He’ll try.
Just before lunch, Mike & I were victims of some friendly verbal abuse from a van that was driving beside us. We turn to see it was Malcolm McPhee from Anacortes, a good friend of mine from many years of cycling here and in Europe. He was following us on Garmin’s Live tracking feature and he knew just where we were to intercept us with his taunts. All in good fun and a pleasant surprise.
Made it to the motel before check-in time, so went to Dairy Queen for a well deserved ice cream cone. Then back to the motel to clean the bike, wash our cycling clothes, and take a shower before going out to dinner. Don came up and we drove 6 miles to the Fairhaven restaurant in Burlington for a great meal...highly recommended if in the area.
Now it’s back to writing this post, figuring out why my Garmin Live Tracking stopped working after lunch and sleep.
Big day tomorrow as we cross the North Cascades mountains.
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