Preparation for this 9 week adventure from Seattle to Boston has taken about 18 months of planning and has definitely helped to have successfully ridden the coast to coast adventure in 2001, but a special thanks goes out to my bicycling partner, Sandy Sanders, who did an excellent job creating numerous spread sheets listing all of the essentials we needed to take and for setting a tough training pace since March of this year.
While we have only biked one century (100 miles on the Great Miami Recreational Trail from Franklin to Yellow Spings, Ohio and back) we have done many 40 to 70 mile trips on Saturdays and Sundays when we could. We have about 1,000 miles logged on our bikes so far and we will ride again June 12-13.
Special thanks also to JB, owner of West Chester Cyclery for his support and guidance now and over the years. He has some fine people, like Jim and Mike, working with him and I know I trust them very much. They have completely overhauled my Softride bicycle that just turned 20,000 miles in it's 10th year! We also had JB's guys tear down and package our bikes for shipping out to Seattle.
Thank you to to the folks at the West Chester United Parcel Service office off Route 747. Manager LeAnn was very helpful and even allowed me to pose with her and one of the guys in Brown so a passerby could take our first bike adventure photograph!
While we have only biked one century (100 miles on the Great Miami Recreational Trail from Franklin to Yellow Spings, Ohio and back) we have done many 40 to 70 mile trips on Saturdays and Sundays when we could. We have about 1,000 miles logged on our bikes so far and we will ride again June 12-13.
Special thanks also to JB, owner of West Chester Cyclery for his support and guidance now and over the years. He has some fine people, like Jim and Mike, working with him and I know I trust them very much. They have completely overhauled my Softride bicycle that just turned 20,000 miles in it's 10th year! We also had JB's guys tear down and package our bikes for shipping out to Seattle.
Thank you to to the folks at the West Chester United Parcel Service office off Route 747. Manager LeAnn was very helpful and even allowed me to pose with her and one of the guys in Brown so a passerby could take our first bike adventure photograph!
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