Trek Week!

On Thursday, I'll head up to Boston for the carbo-loading dinner. Luckilly, I've been offerred a place to stay Thursday night (thanks, Scot and Amy!), so I don't have to foot the bill for a hotel room. Friday morning, bright and early will see us off and riding southwest towards NYC! I'm going to take it easy this coming week. I'm not going to run, but I'll go out for a few moderate rides. I think I'm in pretty good shape. I'm perhaps not in as good riding shape as last year, but I feel good nonetheless.

Speaking of riding and running, I ran 20 miles and rode about 80 miles this past week, including a great 50 mile ride yesterday and a 9 mile run today. The 30 mile ride I did the other day incorporated a bunch of climbing and my legs felt pretty good.

Now...on to fundraising...I'm struggling a bit. I've spoken with some other riders and many of them are having a harder time at it this year too. I need to make some follow-up calls this week and we'll see where things stand when I leave for the ride. We shall see...I have a feeling things will work out; I just need to get the word out and contact some more people. If you're reading this and haven't joined my ride, please do. Every dollar counts!

Wish me luck!

Update

It's been about 3 weeks since my last entry. In that time I've run 46 miles and ridden 163 miles. This includes a grueling 52.5 mile ride into the hills NW of where I live:

I had about 2,000 feet of climbing to do on that day. The climbing is fairly similar to that which we will do on the third day of the trek. In fact, the first 10 miles is the exact same first 10 miles of day 3. Not bad, if I do say so myself. There is less than 2 weeks left until we begin. This week, I need to really focus on putting in some miles on the bike and raising some more money. I'm going to call around to a few businesses/institutions in the area that might be interested and then spend some time next weekend knocking on doors. We'll see how it goes. Speaking of the trek, someone submitted the route to mapmyride. The elevation seems to be a little weird/off, but other than that, you can check to see if we'll be riding close to you by clicking on the map below:

Oh, and a small pic of what our Jersey will look like this year: