Voice Post: 2009 PMC Sat Bourne departure

[ornoth_cycling]

The following is a transcription of a phone post that originally appeared in my main journal, here.

Okay, it's 20 minutes of 6 and I am leaving Bourne for the hotel in Sandwich. This is the fun part of the ride, where I get the Cape Cod Canal bike path all to myself for about 10 miles.

The canal is actually 17 miles long and connects Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay. Built in 1909 to 1916 and it's cool because there's like a 6 knot current that goes one way when the tide is coming in, and it's the same speed going the other way going out. It's a really strong current; there's always a strong breeze here, but there's a bike trail on both sides.

I'm Leaving Mass Maritime: Mass Maritime is the second oldest state maritime academy in the US. I'll go past the vertical-lift railroad bridge, which is actually the second longest lift bridge in the United States at a 544-foot main span.

And then I'll actually go over the Bourne Bridge, which is an automotive bridge built in 1933 which has a 616-foot span and it's 135 feet up. It's the twin to the Sagamore Bridge, which I will actually be going under while I'm on the bike path.

But things remain grim as far as for the potential for finding any spokes this weekend. So we're gonna continue to hobble along, but this segment is gonna be nice and easy, and hopefully I will have regained some strength from the rest that I've had. And get into Sandwich shortly, and I'll send an update from Sandwich at some point this evening, before probably a start tomorrow morning around 6am. But that's it from here.