Day 0-6/15 Updates
I'm Off To See America--The Hard Way
06/15/08 10:10
Hello Everyone,
In just a few hours I will be off to begin my journey across America. I will be leaving Chico Sunday morning to meet the rest of the team in Sacramento. There we will pack up and be on our way to San Francisco where we will be spending the night. At 3:30 am on Monday, after dipping our tires into the Pacific Ocean and having a glass of champagne, we set off over the Golden Gate Bridge and onward to over 3,000 miles across America in ten days.
I'm packed and hopefully both mentally and physically ready for the ride of a life-time. I get really excited about what's ahead but I seriously question my sanity.
A quick run down of how this ride works: This is a relay with 3 teams of riders. Each SHIFT is responsible for traveling 120 miles on a bike in an 8 hour period. This works out to an average speed of 15 miles an hour. I am part of shift one. We will start each day at 4:00 am and will ride until 12:00 pm. Once completing the ride we will then pick-up lunch and drive ahead around 240 miles to our next starting point. We will be moving the entire time.
Because the purpose of trip is to raise awareness for childhood cancer we will also be stopping at hospitals to visit cancer patients and staging public events like the one we will have at the California State Capital in Sacramento on Monday.
In all I expect it to be a wonderfully challenging experience and I am incredibly grateful to all of you for your support in helping me get to this point and you will be my greatest motivation to complete ride.
Over the course of the next ten days I hope to send e-mail updates of how the trip plays itself out. Here's our schedule along with an Excel spreadsheet of our route. For fun visit the website: www.mapmyride.com so you can plot the journey. The Midwest right now looks very interesting.
Thank you all once again for your incredible support. I was able raise around $6,000 for this trip and I am forever indebted to all of you for your generosity and friendship.
For now I bid you farewell. Happy trails my friends!!!!!!
Best Wishes,
John (Sam) Livernois
In just a few hours I will be off to begin my journey across America. I will be leaving Chico Sunday morning to meet the rest of the team in Sacramento. There we will pack up and be on our way to San Francisco where we will be spending the night. At 3:30 am on Monday, after dipping our tires into the Pacific Ocean and having a glass of champagne, we set off over the Golden Gate Bridge and onward to over 3,000 miles across America in ten days.
I'm packed and hopefully both mentally and physically ready for the ride of a life-time. I get really excited about what's ahead but I seriously question my sanity.
A quick run down of how this ride works: This is a relay with 3 teams of riders. Each SHIFT is responsible for traveling 120 miles on a bike in an 8 hour period. This works out to an average speed of 15 miles an hour. I am part of shift one. We will start each day at 4:00 am and will ride until 12:00 pm. Once completing the ride we will then pick-up lunch and drive ahead around 240 miles to our next starting point. We will be moving the entire time.
Because the purpose of trip is to raise awareness for childhood cancer we will also be stopping at hospitals to visit cancer patients and staging public events like the one we will have at the California State Capital in Sacramento on Monday.
In all I expect it to be a wonderfully challenging experience and I am incredibly grateful to all of you for your support in helping me get to this point and you will be my greatest motivation to complete ride.
Over the course of the next ten days I hope to send e-mail updates of how the trip plays itself out. Here's our schedule along with an Excel spreadsheet of our route. For fun visit the website: www.mapmyride.com so you can plot the journey. The Midwest right now looks very interesting.
Thank you all once again for your incredible support. I was able raise around $6,000 for this trip and I am forever indebted to all of you for your generosity and friendship.
For now I bid you farewell. Happy trails my friends!!!!!!
Best Wishes,
John (Sam) Livernois
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