Day 62, Friday, September 1, 2006
Corner Brook to Grand Falls, 268 km
Amount cycled...85
The morning started far too early, just after 5 when Option 3 riders were up, packing up, looking for items of clothing etc. They were very noisy and the beams from their flashlights were dancing all over the room. It was to be a morning to sleep in until 6...that never happened. There is a "little conflict" in the group over the riders whom some think are given priorioty over the rest in order for them to achieve their goal of cycling Port Aux Basque to St. John's in the 4 days. I think that will be adressed in tonight's meeting.
Anyhow, back to last night where I met up with Gail. She looks well and seems happy. Her daughter, Robyn and Meghan (Robyn's 4 year old daughter) had been living with her for the past two years and she had just driven them to St. John's where they moved in with Robyn's boyfriend. Gail asked about all the folks at St. Luke's. I only had about 1/2 hour time with her as it was getting late and I knew People in the room would have light's out. I didn't have a good sleep.
It was very gray and cold and WINDY. We had a nice devotion led by Len...talking about "life after Sept.3...and the adjustment we will have to make; and about how people just won't understand this journey that we have been on...all the aspects, friendships, conflicts etc..the whole package. It truly has been remarkable.
Option 2, my group, were led out of town for 20 km by a police escort. It was very, very windy with the wind in our faces. Option B riders broke into 3 groups. At one point Hank went to the front to give Graeme a break and there was a bit of a stall and Yvonne hit Graeme's wheel causing her to fall in the road, Angela fell over her, Bob swerved to avoid her which cut me off and I hit the ditch...my mountain bike experience came into play! Luckily there were no severe injuries and we were back in the saddle in no time. Newfoundland has not been kind weatherwise...we have had rain, wind and hills. We struggled to maintain an average speed of 20.
I made it to the lunch break at 85 km and immediately racked my bike. I had been riding over 4 hours to get there. Our group was to do 170 km today. No one made it and we all begged to get into the Grim Reaper. I think the furtherest some of our group did was 120 km. We are at a Pentecostal Church on Park St. in Grand Falls. It is a lovely facility to house and feed us. We had a good dinner and a nice "healing" service.
Bob was having trouble with his hub toay. The Bike Doc. came over to the church to service bikes. He replaced Bob's axel. Hopefully the weather will be kinder tomorrow. Jack, Scott, Vincent and Dustin accomplished the entire 268 km today!!! Kudo's to them. I think they are a tad on the tired side right now. Tomorrow is a 230 day for them... I think 150 for our group. People in Newfoundland are happy to see our visibility...they stop to give us money for the Canadian Bible Society.
Amount cycled...85
The morning started far too early, just after 5 when Option 3 riders were up, packing up, looking for items of clothing etc. They were very noisy and the beams from their flashlights were dancing all over the room. It was to be a morning to sleep in until 6...that never happened. There is a "little conflict" in the group over the riders whom some think are given priorioty over the rest in order for them to achieve their goal of cycling Port Aux Basque to St. John's in the 4 days. I think that will be adressed in tonight's meeting.
Anyhow, back to last night where I met up with Gail. She looks well and seems happy. Her daughter, Robyn and Meghan (Robyn's 4 year old daughter) had been living with her for the past two years and she had just driven them to St. John's where they moved in with Robyn's boyfriend. Gail asked about all the folks at St. Luke's. I only had about 1/2 hour time with her as it was getting late and I knew People in the room would have light's out. I didn't have a good sleep.
It was very gray and cold and WINDY. We had a nice devotion led by Len...talking about "life after Sept.3...and the adjustment we will have to make; and about how people just won't understand this journey that we have been on...all the aspects, friendships, conflicts etc..the whole package. It truly has been remarkable.
Option 2, my group, were led out of town for 20 km by a police escort. It was very, very windy with the wind in our faces. Option B riders broke into 3 groups. At one point Hank went to the front to give Graeme a break and there was a bit of a stall and Yvonne hit Graeme's wheel causing her to fall in the road, Angela fell over her, Bob swerved to avoid her which cut me off and I hit the ditch...my mountain bike experience came into play! Luckily there were no severe injuries and we were back in the saddle in no time. Newfoundland has not been kind weatherwise...we have had rain, wind and hills. We struggled to maintain an average speed of 20.
I made it to the lunch break at 85 km and immediately racked my bike. I had been riding over 4 hours to get there. Our group was to do 170 km today. No one made it and we all begged to get into the Grim Reaper. I think the furtherest some of our group did was 120 km. We are at a Pentecostal Church on Park St. in Grand Falls. It is a lovely facility to house and feed us. We had a good dinner and a nice "healing" service.
Bob was having trouble with his hub toay. The Bike Doc. came over to the church to service bikes. He replaced Bob's axel. Hopefully the weather will be kinder tomorrow. Jack, Scott, Vincent and Dustin accomplished the entire 268 km today!!! Kudo's to them. I think they are a tad on the tired side right now. Tomorrow is a 230 day for them... I think 150 for our group. People in Newfoundland are happy to see our visibility...they stop to give us money for the Canadian Bible Society.
posted by Unknown at 7:16 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Jill! Hope home is treating you well. Things are already crazy hectic for me. Just wanted to apologize for this early morning wake-up here. The difficulty was we had been given zero direction as to when we should/could leave and by the time we figured it out everyone was scattered all over the sleeping area. I tried to get everyone to eat breakfast first so that we wouldn't make noise, but that didn't happen. So, sorry! I'm sure it's all water under the bridge by now...Thanks for a great trip! You were a wonderfully strong rider and I also appreciated your sense of humour and determination to persevere and ride. All the best
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