Keeper of the Statistics - Week One

Week 1 is history with seven days of riding.  No one has gone crazy --yet. (Or if they have, they haven’t acted on it.)  No one has beaten the other members of the group to death with a bicycle pump--yet.  No one has stuck the business end of the pump in his or her mouth and (quite literally) blown themselves up--yet.  I call that success.  If not for the sag support getting us to and from our start/finish points each day, this trip would have already ended.

We have learned that we really enjoy the cool serenity of riding in the predawn hours.  We have learned that tailwinds are the three eyed unicorns of cycling the Southern Tier. 

We did not get as far as we hoped, but we are still on track.  The tale of the tape for the first week: Miles 348, Vertical feet climbed 12,900.  We have added about 3 miles to the trip with a few wrong turns.

To put this in context, 11.1% of the time for the trip has passed.  We have ridden 11.3% of the total miles of the trip.  We have completed 15.3% of the vertical climbing on the trip.  We are stronger and feeling better (except for some sore bums).