Glenlivet12
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I don't know if this stuff works but it tastes like yoo-hoo! There were about 35 hershey's employees riding this year and they all had a regen jersey on the second day.
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I don't know if this stuff works but it tastes like yoo-hoo! There were about 35 hershey's employees riding this year and they all had a regen jersey on the second day.
Nice! I hope that the money raised causes there to be no need for another tour.
Glenlivet12
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Here is our Garmin connect info for day 3.
The last day started off out in front of the Marriott in Trenton. It was cold and windy and the sun didn't feel like coming out. We got a police escort out of town, there wasn't really any cars on the road that early but it was nice to know if sh!t went down they were right there 😉 Today was very flat, not many hills to warm up on or to thin out the crowd. Since it was only a 55ish mile course today there were only two rest stops. Eventually we hit some long straight roads and were able to jockey up towards the front of the line and get a good pace going. About 3/4's of the way to the first stop we caught up with Jeff and Jamie. We hung together and chatted for a bit through to the stop(about mile 17) and for a bit afterwards too. The long flat stretches coupled with a decent headwind really thinned out the pack by this point. The second rest stop came up around mile 31.
Apparently today was a popular day for bike rides because there was another big group that had a rest stop out on our course. It was somewhere around mile 26 or 28, I pulled over until I realized it no one was wearing our jersey so I got out of there as quick as possible. Not to long after that we were on Perrineville road and we passed someone who looked like Ben. He looked right at me, we've only met a handful of times so I wasn't surprised he didn't recognize me if it was him. I think he was wearing sweat pants :hmmm: shortly after that we hit rest stop 2. A quick bathroom break and a bite of some PB&J and we were off again.
For the rest of the ride we were in familiar territory. We finished up with roads that Lisa and I trained on and Wobbegong frequently used for his group road rides this summer. It was kind of weird riding them as part of the tour, it felt like we were in the wrong place or something. At one point we were a five minute bike ride from our house.
The last several miles we met up with two survivors and another lady that we had ridden with for a bit the previous day. We kept a decent pace and finished strong in Mercer County Park over by the ice skating rink. Our family and friends were there holding up signs and cheering us on as we finished.
Samples of Chamois butter and Biofreeze were put in our gift bags. The biofreeze stuff is great. We used some the second night on our shoulders and it seemed to help. I can't speak for the Chamois Butter because we brought some Keister Kream with us (there website appears to be having issues). I can't begin to tell you how great this stuff is. There is no way we could have gotten through the ride without it.
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If the guy from SoyuRide reads this you guys need to make samples for events like these! People were grabbing handfuls of samples before the start of each day.
We went into this not knowing what to expect or how to train really. We still don't really know how to train but I think we did excellent and have a better idea of what we need to work on to do something like this again. I think each day we did better about eating and drinking more during our ride. We wanted to finish and feel like we can keep going and we accomplished that. So, I'm pretty proud of ourselves.
This was an awesome experience and everyone we met was extremely cool. I have to say breast cancer awareness organizations have some of the best t-shirt slogans. We saw shirts that said "Save the Tata's", "Save second base" and "Save my Rack".
The whole ride ran like clockwork, we had a course director that didn't miss a beat. He's done professional level races and has had to corral some of the top racers to get them ready for the day. Moto guys were buzzing around everywhere helping us at intersections and directing where to go, they even gave some folks who needed it a nice push up some of the bigger hills. The volunteers kept a controlled chaos at the rest stops. A small group of volunteers were out at 4:30 in the morning putting up the course signage and dealing with re-routes for downed pour lines and flooded rivers. g4 productions coordinated this whole thing. They are the same one that did the Mercer Mountain Bike Festival at Belle Mountain.
Giant has been a sponsor for a number of years and they brought with them a great program. They donated bikes to survivors who needed a bike in order to participate. Not just for the ride but to keep! These aren't their bottom end bikes either, they were pretty nice! They even hooked up the ladies with a helmet, pedals and shoes! I think over the last few years they've donated somewhere around 60 bikes to the cause.
Pete and Alex from Knapp's seemed to be everywhere. We'd see them at rest stops then on the side of the road helping someone out. They both always had a smile on their face and didn't even scoff at us when we walked up to get our tires topped off with our Halters jerseys on.
We're starting to talk about doing this again, we'll see about next year maybe the year after. The ride was great but fundraising was tough and to ask for that much money two years in a row is hard. We can't thank everyone who donated enough, with out you we wouldn't have been able to do this. We found out this morning that all of the food, housing and transportation had been donated so all of the money we raised went straight to the Young Survival Coalition. We'll definitely have to branch out more next time and go outside just family and friends.
We've got a handful of photos from the finish that we'll post up as we get them from people.
Ok, so here are some stats from the tour according to my Garmin 605:
Total Distance: 230.57 miles
Total elevation gain: 7,667 ft
Total elevation loss: 7,938 ft
Calories: 11,763 (no HRM)
average speed: 13.5 mph
Ok, that's all I got. This was a blast, thanks for reading!
Bill & Lisa
The last day started off out in front of the Marriott in Trenton. It was cold and windy and the sun didn't feel like coming out. We got a police escort out of town, there wasn't really any cars on the road that early but it was nice to know if sh!t went down they were right there 😉 Today was very flat, not many hills to warm up on or to thin out the crowd. Since it was only a 55ish mile course today there were only two rest stops. Eventually we hit some long straight roads and were able to jockey up towards the front of the line and get a good pace going. About 3/4's of the way to the first stop we caught up with Jeff and Jamie. We hung together and chatted for a bit through to the stop(about mile 17) and for a bit afterwards too. The long flat stretches coupled with a decent headwind really thinned out the pack by this point. The second rest stop came up around mile 31.
Apparently today was a popular day for bike rides because there was another big group that had a rest stop out on our course. It was somewhere around mile 26 or 28, I pulled over until I realized it no one was wearing our jersey so I got out of there as quick as possible. Not to long after that we were on Perrineville road and we passed someone who looked like Ben. He looked right at me, we've only met a handful of times so I wasn't surprised he didn't recognize me if it was him. I think he was wearing sweat pants :hmmm: shortly after that we hit rest stop 2. A quick bathroom break and a bite of some PB&J and we were off again.
For the rest of the ride we were in familiar territory. We finished up with roads that Lisa and I trained on and Wobbegong frequently used for his group road rides this summer. It was kind of weird riding them as part of the tour, it felt like we were in the wrong place or something. At one point we were a five minute bike ride from our house.
The last several miles we met up with two survivors and another lady that we had ridden with for a bit the previous day. We kept a decent pace and finished strong in Mercer County Park over by the ice skating rink. Our family and friends were there holding up signs and cheering us on as we finished.
Samples of Chamois butter and Biofreeze were put in our gift bags. The biofreeze stuff is great. We used some the second night on our shoulders and it seemed to help. I can't speak for the Chamois Butter because we brought some Keister Kream with us (there website appears to be having issues). I can't begin to tell you how great this stuff is. There is no way we could have gotten through the ride without it.
View attachment 6451
If the guy from SoyuRide reads this you guys need to make samples for events like these! People were grabbing handfuls of samples before the start of each day.
We went into this not knowing what to expect or how to train really. We still don't really know how to train but I think we did excellent and have a better idea of what we need to work on to do something like this again. I think each day we did better about eating and drinking more during our ride. We wanted to finish and feel like we can keep going and we accomplished that. So, I'm pretty proud of ourselves.
This was an awesome experience and everyone we met was extremely cool. I have to say breast cancer awareness organizations have some of the best t-shirt slogans. We saw shirts that said "Save the Tata's", "Save second base" and "Save my Rack".
The whole ride ran like clockwork, we had a course director that didn't miss a beat. He's done professional level races and has had to corral some of the top racers to get them ready for the day. Moto guys were buzzing around everywhere helping us at intersections and directing where to go, they even gave some folks who needed it a nice push up some of the bigger hills. The volunteers kept a controlled chaos at the rest stops. A small group of volunteers were out at 4:30 in the morning putting up the course signage and dealing with re-routes for downed pour lines and flooded rivers. g4 productions coordinated this whole thing. They are the same one that did the Mercer Mountain Bike Festival at Belle Mountain.
Giant has been a sponsor for a number of years and they brought with them a great program. They donated bikes to survivors who needed a bike in order to participate. Not just for the ride but to keep! These aren't their bottom end bikes either, they were pretty nice! They even hooked up the ladies with a helmet, pedals and shoes! I think over the last few years they've donated somewhere around 60 bikes to the cause.
Pete and Alex from Knapp's seemed to be everywhere. We'd see them at rest stops then on the side of the road helping someone out. They both always had a smile on their face and didn't even scoff at us when we walked up to get our tires topped off with our Halters jerseys on.
We're starting to talk about doing this again, we'll see about next year maybe the year after. The ride was great but fundraising was tough and to ask for that much money two years in a row is hard. We can't thank everyone who donated enough, with out you we wouldn't have been able to do this. We found out this morning that all of the food, housing and transportation had been donated so all of the money we raised went straight to the Young Survival Coalition. We'll definitely have to branch out more next time and go outside just family and friends.
We've got a handful of photos from the finish that we'll post up as we get them from people.
Ok, so here are some stats from the tour according to my Garmin 605:
Total Distance: 230.57 miles
Total elevation gain: 7,667 ft
Total elevation loss: 7,938 ft
Calories: 11,763 (no HRM)
average speed: 13.5 mph
Ok, that's all I got. This was a blast, thanks for reading!
Bill & Lisa
RockySlayer
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Glad to see you guys completed it and you're still standing! Well, I bet at this point, you would rather stand than sit, huh? Sorry I couldnt meet you there at the finish line. That would have been a great thing to see. Sooooo, tour de pink... was it a good tour???😛
Glenlivet12
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Not dressed to stop!
Yes, this is excellent. Probably my favorite pic of your trip.
Ben was down in south Jersey with us at Hillbilly today.
Good job guys, thanks for posting up as you went along.
Glenlivet12
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Thanks! Must have been some other skinny roadie guy🙄 I forgot about the Hillbilly Hustle...