Woah
Friday, July 06, 2007
And I thought a little 112-miler this weekend was going to be tough.
Check out this article (thanks to Mel for sending it on!) on Matt Pomeroy's 4,000 mile bike ride across the country (dubbed "Matt Across America") to raise money for Lance Armstrong's Livestrong foundation in honor of his mother, who passed away in 2005 from breast cancer.
Of particular interest? Matt's blog, http://www.mattacrossamerica.com/ -- especially the July 4th entry, "Rolling Back Roads of Wisconsin," where he says that Prairie du Chien to Madison were "112 of the most difficult miles yet on Matt Across America." He writes: "Up & down, up & down, up & down . . . forever. Today was the number one climbing day of the entire cross country ride so far and the pain was compounded by the constant rolling which makes it impossible to find the right gear or get into a steady rhythm."
That's after 33 days' worth of riding, since May 31st, starting at the shore of the Pacific Ocean in Washington state and heading through the Rockies, Montana, and North Dakota. Surely anyone who's tackled the Horribly Hilly Hundreds or the IM-Moo course would agree.
Posted by Erin 11:40 AM