RTRTD Event is finally here!
Hello everyone!
Van and Team Will started the adventure yesterday! Ride to Reach The Day and Team Will is a community of cyclists of all levels and ages committed to raising public awareness and funds for a wide range of children’s charities through a mixture of cycling activities and events. The 2008 ride was kicked off in the early light at Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The riders all gathered in Old Sacramento for a group trek to the State Capitol across the Tower Bridge. An awesome Rally was held with great music, lots of well wisher for the riders, inspirational speeches and tons of support from the friends and family who attended!
I’ll be updating the blog with fun stuff from Team 3 as I hear from Van each day. Last night’s ride for Team 3, the “night stalkers”, was from Truckee to Lovelock. Yes, they do ride on freeways! Their ride each night is from 8 PM to 4 AM…so as they get more sleep deprived each day we should hear some really great stories!
This morning, after finishing at 4 am, Van met up with his long time friends Jim and Debbie who live in Winnemucca, NV. After a nice breakfast at The Griddle (Van and I LOVE that place!), Jim told me that everybody appeared to be in good spirits in spite of being a little sleep deprived and they mentioned they were all looking forward to getting to Battle Mountain and a little sleep. Van commented that it got a little cold earlier this morning while riding through some of the “low spots” in the desert. Night temps were forecast for the mid 40s in our area, with day temps high 80s to low 90s. Thanks Jim for the update!
