17.5 miles, +317/-525 feet
Much cooler this morning as we left the hotel for the final ride to Pleasure Bay Beach....BUT....spirits could not be dampened. This was the last link in the cross country journey from coast-to-coast. It was time...
96 miles, +4809/-4623 feet
Today was a day to "get the job done". Long miles and hills, but worth it. Tonight we are in Waltham, MA, preparing for tomorrow, the last cross country ride day....17 miles to Pleasure Day Beach.
We...
93 miles, +5142/-5269 feet
Long cross country day with lots of climbing and an equal amount of amazing descending. After crossing the Hudson River, the morning proceeded to follow a route through the woods. It was beautiful.
We made a stop...
70 miles, +1818/-2012 feet
Seventy miles makes a short cross country ride day for this fast group. I refer to them lovingly as an "anomaly" because they are not normal tour riders. They came to tour strong and fast and are...
76 miles, +1660/-1680 feet
Very quite roads with wide smooth shoulders. The riders left Syracuse (actually the Village of Liverpool), traveling around a difficult section of road on a very nice bike trail to start off their cross country 4th...
85 miles, +2558/-2710 feet
Big day of cross country rollers through the New York countryside.
Leaving Victor this morning the riders headed out on country roads through small towns and eventually to the lakeside town of Geneva, and the beautiful sparkling water of...
89 miles, +3448/-3636 feet
New York State is truly a beautiful state with good roads and picturesque landscape. Right now there are lots of flowers blooming and the cultivated fields are green and lush making our cross country ride colorful...
80 miles, +1905/-1730 feet
Between miles 30 and 60 on our cross country tour we experienced some rain today. Not too bad, but enough to get wet. After all the "absolutely amazing" weather we've experienced in the past six weeks,...
Rest day in Erie, PA
2745 miles completed
620 miles to ride before we reach the beach in Boston
Thinking about the cross country riders ONLY having six hundred and twenty more miles to ride before they reach the beach in Boston, and dip their...
89 miles, +1717/-2060 feet
It was much cooler this morning when we left Niles, OH, on the fortieth day of our cross country tour, headed toward Lake Erie, and the state line crossing into Pennsylvania. Vests, jackets and arm warmers were...