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.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

July 11th - Day 7





One week down and about 840 miles on the books. You gotta love the fact that I wake up in the middle of the night hungry and snack on the cookies, bars, etc. that I've stashed next to my bed. Regardless, I got a solid 9 hours of sleep...and could've kept sleeping.
We took off from Burley, Idaho about 630 this morning, and enjoyed some gentle rolling roads along the Snake River without wind for about an hour. Given how fatigued I felt at the end of yesterday, I was pleased to feel mentally and physically ready to have an enjoyable day of 148 miles. The climbs early in the day rewarded us with views of expansive valleys. The winds and temperature picked up as we entered Utah and crossed HUGE valleys 15 miles across. A few of us were treated to a sighting of some antelope right before lunch...where we learned that it was 97 degrees in the shade.
Pretty much everyone drank liters of fluid with minimal output, if you know what I mean. The elevation for much of the ride was approximately 5000 feet, I believe. As we approached Brigham City, UT, we took a long bend in the road around a gigantic rocket facility, complete with display of some rockets.
We also passed near the Golden Spike Historical site (where the west and east railroads met). Since the site was 5 miles up a side road...and the golden spike itself is allegedly in a museum at Stanford University, I took a pass and headed into town. Yesterday was 8:45 in the saddle, and today was 9:07 in the saddle.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's ride to Evanston, WY...a 100 mile ride up and over some mountains with about 7000 feet of climbing and ending up at 7000 feet elevation.
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  1. edspawJuly 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM

    Sooo... Jay... How are you and your saddle getting along these long days together??

    RC

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