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.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Pac tour day 29 - Perry, GA to Metter, GA


It was tough to get up an hour earlier today and know that I was missing all of my family and friends gathered on Mercer Island for Seafair today. Those thoughts drifted away as I shifted my attention to the graceful paceline of our entire group leaving the town and slowly picking up the pace on the way East, sans rain. We, of course, got doused with some showers on the quiet roads (Sunday in the South) before lunch.
The afternoon was a race to the hotel...trying to outrun the clouds full of impending doom, I mean rain. The hammerfest from the last sag wasn't in time, as the complete and utter downpour hit us with 6 miles to go. We literally were riding upstream into town, with inches of running water rushing over the roads as the sheets of rain dropped out of the sky. A brief detour into the wrong hotel area took us through multiple areas of about 10 inches of standing water...and then the lightning started...with thunder only a 2-4 seconds behind! Quite the exciting finish to our penultimate day.

Although tomorrow may indeed be cloudy and wet, I'm looking forward to seeing the East Coast (it's been quite a while) and seeing Doug, Melissa, and Will Walker, who happen to be in Hilton Head (right next to Tybee Island).

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  1. Christopher MannAugust 2, 2009 at 4:43 PM

    Ride carefully tomorrow and then let the good times roll to celebrate an adventure and a journey of a lifetime... although you sound suspiciously like this might not be the last time you do something like this :-)

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