I have been training since February 2009 with the goal of completing a cycling tour from Portland, Oregon, to Tybee Island, Georgia in 30 days. The PAC Tour group embarked on July 5th and we are traveling about 3600 miles and climbing approximately 124,000 cumulative feet. Please enjoy sharing my journey across America.
I am asking friends, family, and anybody else interested in following the trip to consider supporting this trip by making a donation to Seattle Children's Hospital, Research, and Foundation. Art and Kristin Reeck have made Children's a priority in their philanthropic efforts over the years, and I laud their achievements. I encourage donations to the Uncompensated Care Fund, to help pay the bills for children without insurance, or with inadequate insurance to pay their bills...lifting the financial and emotional burden from the children and their families. Indicate Jay Across America as the occasion for the donation so we can total the money raised.
Hopefully, someday, we won't have to raise money for causes like this. For now, however, I thank you for your support.
The donation total will be updated occasionally...Consider a donation per mile or vertical foot climbed...and follow on the GPS link, where you can see the route, the speed, the ride profile, the weather, and-yes-my heart rate.

Monday, June 1, 2009

May 30-31 Training rides


Southern Oregon didn't disappoint this weekend, providing hot weather, bright sunshine, and beautiful hills, vineyards and rivers.
Tim and Heather joined up with me on Saturday and headed from Ashland to Ruch...where Tim turned off to Woodrat for some climbing and to head home and be responsible (study).  Heather and I headed out through the Applegate Valley, enjoying the views of hills and vineyards...and the seemingly endless downhill.

We lunched in Grants Pass, overlooking the Rogue River, before heading home through the Rogue Valley...127 miles in the logbook. 
 Forunately, my only flat happened 6 miles from home, right in front of Flywheel Bicycle Solutions.  I wonder where I can find a tube?

Sunday was a solo effort through the Northeast end of the Rogue Valley with a scenic loop in the North end of the valley, passing through Wimer and heading via Evans Creek back down to the Rogue River.  The word for the afternoon (after lunching near the covered bridge in Wimer) was 
hot.  Thanks to all the mini-marts for tons of ice to cool down the water bottles!  Another 125 miles in the books.

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