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.

Friday, July 10, 2009

July 10th - Day 6






Today was extremely tough. We repaid the wind gods today with an all day effort into the winds. Pacelines this morning were key to help share the work of heading into the wind for 138 miles. It seems that everyone agrees today challenged the bodies. Definitely one of the most difficult days on the bike for me...and it's just beginning. We did stop for some ice cream (including vanilla potato-it is Idaho, after all). The aero bars were key for me getting through the wind on a solo effort for the last 20 miles or so...and made it easier on the arms and shoulders. Good night!

Connection is slow. I'll try posting pix tomorrow.

Thanks for the encouragement, everybody!


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  1. Christopher MannJuly 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM

    Very impressive. Keep at it. By the time you are home telling the stories, you'll forget the actual headwinds... but you'll tell us all how you rode every inch across the country into gale force winds :-)

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