Moving Time 6:45:51
Elevation 4,337ft
Avg Speed 13.5mi/h
Max Speed 34.7 mi/h
Heart Rate Avg 112bpm 146bpm
Calories 2,685
Temperature 72
Wakeup Time: 5:00 a.m. / Ride-out Time: 6:45 a.m. / Elapsed Time 11:54:04
It was a long, tiring emotional day. Last year on Day 4 is when Edna Flores Laguntes suffered a cardiac event and was brought to the hospital and passed away three days later.
A group of us followed Richard, Edna's husband, from start to finish.
This post deserves more of my time, so please allow me to update this when I return.
For now, I leave you with pictures from this day. I'm updating this post on Tuesday, June 16, 2015.
I woke up to rustling tents and loud conversations. Why in the heck are people talking so loud so early in the morning? I reached for my phone and looked at the time and couldn't believe it was 5:00 a.m.!!! (I can't use enough exclamation marks.) Carlos was out of the tent so I packed up and dressed so fast -- I think under 15 minutes. During the last few minutes, Carlos returned and was laughing so hard he couldn't get any words out. Yeah, "Thanks for waking me up, Carlos." He thought I wanted to sleep-in. And, when I finally emerged from the tent, the day greeted us with such beauty.
The morning was rushed, but I was able to be 15 minutes late riding out. I try to be at the bike parking lot by 6:30 a.m. each day with the exception of Day 2. As you can see from my posts I am very NOT successful with the ride-out time. Take a breath, Art, it's not a race, it's a ride. On your marks, get set, RIDE to mile 9.7 RS1 somewhere in the boonies, but so quaint.
We wore white tutus with red ribbons to honor Edna, which was her signature last year wearing hers each day from Day 1 to Day 4.
I woke up to rustling tents and loud conversations. Why in the heck are people talking so loud so early in the morning? I reached for my phone and looked at the time and couldn't believe it was 5:00 a.m.!!! (I can't use enough exclamation marks.) Carlos was out of the tent so I packed up and dressed so fast -- I think under 15 minutes. During the last few minutes, Carlos returned and was laughing so hard he couldn't get any words out. Yeah, "Thanks for waking me up, Carlos." He thought I wanted to sleep-in. And, when I finally emerged from the tent, the day greeted us with such beauty.
The morning was rushed, but I was able to be 15 minutes late riding out. I try to be at the bike parking lot by 6:30 a.m. each day with the exception of Day 2. As you can see from my posts I am very NOT successful with the ride-out time. Take a breath, Art, it's not a race, it's a ride. On your marks, get set, RIDE to mile 9.7 RS1 somewhere in the boonies, but so quaint.We wore white tutus with red ribbons to honor Edna, which was her signature last year wearing hers each day from Day 1 to Day 4.
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| Photo #ALC2014D400736 (c) Copyright by Robert Benscoter. May be used for personal use only, unless with explicit permission. All rights reserved. |
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| Sexy Sese, Dean and Joe |
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| Joe and Dan |
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| Erin |
Leaving RS1 to mile 33.3 RS2 Caldrons Pullout is getting exciting because we're headed to the halfway point to Los Angeles. We all left together and had Rich set the pace.
As we got closer, I rode ahead so that I could capture as much as I could on video.
Here you have three sets of video with those who rode with Rich today.
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| Texan Hunk |
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| Thank you "Chris ALC Photos" Stewart for capturing a lovely moment |
I love that as I sat down to lunch, Lisa was just leaving. We captured the moment.
Her goal during training was to at least see me riding out of lunch as she rode in - this was entirely the opposite.
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| Now, how cute can Claire get |
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| As cute as a double smile with Tanner |
The ride from lunch to mile 59 RS3 Meadow Park was a new route due to construction. I can't remember the stop, but I do know that we continued on and on our way to mile 70.5 water stop, we came to a very poignant sign at mile 62.8. After this sign Rich and Thomas tried their best to find the spot where Edna had her cardiac arrest. We stopped at a few places and we could see in Rich's face that he wanted so much to find the very spot. Alas, the reroute had taken us miles away from the spot and when we arrived at mile 85.3 RS4 Nipomo Community Park, I noticed a contemplative smile on Rich's face. We all wanted to make sure he was okay. I hugged him and asked, he replied (not verbatim), "I'm okay. It's okay. I'm good. I was so intent on finding the spot, but I was given so much more. I was, we were able to ride through the Town of Edna. The day could not have been more meaningful than that.
And within seconds we heard the announcement that RS4 was closing and if we were not on the road, we would be SAGged to camp. We helped the team regroup and off we rode to mile 91.4 and were now at Camp Presider Park, Santa Maria.
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| Bumping into Johannes before saying GOODNIGHT! |
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