2010 PMC Sat Franklin

Voice post not working so far today. All's well at stop two, more later.

2010 PMC Sat Lakeville

At stop four. 83 miles so far today; 177 since yestiddy. Good! Longer post from the finish!

Voice Post: 2010 PMC Sat Wareham

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

This is awesome! The first time that LiveJournal's voice posting is working today happens to be the day when I have peanut butter and Fluff sandwich stuck in my mouth, so... Been a great day so far, with freezing-- well, not freezing, but it was pretty cold this morning, like 54 degrees...

I've been riding with different people: Paul, Tony, Adrian, Noah. I've been meeting all kinds of people that I know. And right now we just finished a hundred miles, so I'm about 8 or 12 miles from the finish.

I'm gonna keep this brief 'cos Adrian is waiting for me, but I'm gonna give you hopefully another voice update once we get to Bourne and after I've had my shower and massage. So things are going really well, and hopefully someone is still paying attention to the web page so that this report is gonna be useful to someone. Okay? Talk to you later!

Voice Post: 2010 PMC Sat Bourne

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

Okay, I'm not sure what time it is now, but I got into Bourne's Mass Maritime Academy at 12:50 -- ten minutes of one -- which may very well be a course record for me. So despite the fact that I've done 202 miles in the past two days, I think I've done really well.

The legs are holding up. I just came from my massage appointment, where I was fortunate enough to have a pair of extremely skilled MTs working on me, and they worked almost exclusively on my legs. So hopefully now I'm in recovery mode and will be able to continue to plod on the final 70 or 80 miles up to Provincetown.

It is a perfectly gorgeous day here today, and I'm going to enjoy spending the afternoon here, with the next item of business being food and rest.

How can I summarize the day? Rode with a bunch of my friends. As I mentioned, it was very cool this morning -- painfully so, shivering for the first 10 miles or so of the ride. But eventually the sun came out. It's kind of partly cloudy, just a beautiful day, nice breeze here on the water now that we've finally reached the ocean, having starting in New York state.

So... pretty happy overall, having a really good time, hanging out with a few friends, and so far I'm sorry that the voice poisting system was dysfunctional for most of the morning, but hopefully it'll hold out for tomorrow.

I will probably have one more voice post update this evening, where I'll let you know how things are going, around suppertime. But right now everything is going a-okay. Couldn't have asked for a better weekend, and so far this year's PMC is turning out to be one of the best.

So that's the story from here, and I hope everyone else is having a good weekend. And obviously thank you so much for your donations and your interest and your support, because I couldn't do it-- any of this event, at all -- without your contributions. So thank you, and I'll talk to you later!

Voice Post: 2010 PMC Sat Sandwich

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

Good evening. It's the final update from Pan-Mass Challenge Saturday's ride: Pan-Mass Challenge Day 1, although for me it's actually day two.

Last talked to you at Mass Maritime, where it was a gorgeous sunny day, which I enjoyed for the rest of the afternoon. I actually went out and waded in Buzzard's Bay, in the ocean there. Also got a bunch of food which I won't enumerate on this call.

Also they had a bunch of big signs so that people could write reasons why they were riding or volunteering for the event, and I wrote my cousin Michael's name; of course he passed away right after I started my fundraising this year, my childhood friend Michael. So the ride is a lot more personal for me this year, and riding in his memory and in his honor adds a lot of meaning to the whole mission.

With that in mind, I can report that I have in fact made my 100-sponsor goal, having received two more donations while I was riding today. I guess my next goal is to reach 108 sponsors, because if I reach that, I will have twice the number of sponsors as I had last year; last year I had 54 so if I get 108 I will have actually doubled the number of sponsors that I have since the past year. So I'm looking forward to that, I think it's possible, so if you have not donated, please do.

After MMA (Mass Maritime), I rode up the canal bike path to Sandwich, which is where my hotel is. I've been getting a lot of video footage along the whole ride, both days, and I hope that it's good, I haven't really viewed it yet.

Once here, we had a dinner where I had a pulled pork pizza with jalapenos on it. And that'll wrap it up for tonight.

Tomorrow I do the final 68 miles of the ride which, added to the 212 that I've already got under my belt, yields a total of about 280 miles, so we'll see if that is doable but so far it feels like it. My legs are in pretty good shape; they are a little worn out and lacking in power, but they'll be fine because I'll take tomorrow easy. Sunday's usually a much more restful and easy day, and it's a shorter day in the saddle, so it should be fine.

Next update bright and early... Well, I probably won't update as soon as I leave, but I will leave the hotel at 6am, and I will probably update from the first rest stop, which will probably be a little before 7am. So up bright and early tomorrow. But right now it's not quite 9, so I should be able to get a decent night's sleep before then.

That's it! I will talk to you tomorrow... as long as the voice post system is working!