Thursday, August 14, 2008

August 14 Hitting the Coast

We arrived in Camden, ME on the Atlantic Coast after riding 6 hours 40 minutes, covering 96 miles and averaging 14 mph. We had 5800 feet of ascent which surprised all of us. That is a lot of climbing with no mountains to show for it. Zack popped another spoke today, which makes seven, I believe. He has gotten quite good at replacing them and straightening up the rim.

We stayed dry all day but it started to rain after we had been in Camden for a couple hours. We are very much hoping to stay dry tomorrow for our last day riding together. We are in the process of sorting out the SAG van and the trailer after 9 weeks of stuffing things in places as we hustle our way across the country.

We are looking forward to the finish line tomorrow up the coast in Bar Harbor. We will be celebrating with our team as well as Ronda, Rob, Danae, Caleb & Aiden Reynolds. It has been a long, wonderful, tiring road and we are ready to hang up the bikes for a while stay up in the one place for a bit. Just 90 miles left to be conquered!

You will enjoy the recap post forthcoming in the next week to ten days.

From Camden, Maine,

Dan

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