YAAA!!!
I am so happy my friends and supporters. It really validates what I am doing and now I guess it is time to raise the bar. I am will come up with a new goal soon (dollar amount). Thank you everyone for your support. Cassie the cards are a huge hit (she refused credit but too bad http://illknowitwheniseeit.com)! Looks like I might make the Osoyoos times as well 🙂 All the rain has been washed away.
Love
Jeff
Map my ride 97km – note this shows days 3,4 and 5 due to blackouts in coverage.
I was awoken by the sound of incessant chirping and the rush of the river. I am not sure how much sleep I got since it was a pretty chilly night and this morning was no different. Lucky for me no rain!
I was smart about two things yesterday: one was to pack everything for a quick clean up and launch, the second was to wear my bike clothes underneath the layers of clothing. I hummed and hawed about getting up from 5 am to 6am but by 6:15 I was ready and went to the outhouse. Basically it took me hour to decide I was ready for a cold toilet seat. I had a protein bar left but I decided it was better to get going and warm up first rather than eat. In all of about 15 minutes I was packed and leaving.
91km – note this shows days 3,4 and 5 due to blackouts in coverage.
After finishing off the remainder of last nights snacks I packed up and headed onto the highway then quickly turned around realizing I was out of water, is that ironic? Just up the highway after the park exit is a gas station/restaurant. The restaurant was closed so I popped into the gas station store to get some quality nourishment.
The sounds from a world war one documentary was blaring out of the TV which the store barley took his eye off to acknowledge me. He had the exact number of tatoo’s showing to tell me he was kind of friendly but not too friendly. I looked for something digestable that was not from1985 and found some homemade somoza like meet pie somethings in the fridge. I grabbed a couple of the pies, a bag of chips and a bottle of gatorade for $15.30. Outside I ate one of the pies which was pretty meager and at least a day old. I also cracked the chips mmmm lays!!!!
It was cold so I headed off for what was a pretty decent downhill. The forest was quickly turning to pine and I was now following the similkamen river. Eventually the fun ran out and I had to make a climb up to Sunday Summit which sits at 1282 meters but I was probably most of the way there anyway since there wasn’t extensive downhill from Allison Pass. After that climb there is a lot of downhill and I got going pretty fast in a couple of stretches but decided to slow it down as the odd gust of wind would push me off center. It was also a little cold so I welcomed the small and few up hill sections.
Closing in on Princeton I made an astonishing discovery: 67 year old Pierre Paul.