Lifecycle Report - Day 3 part 2
OK... heard from Trek420 at about 3:30 PM y'alls time (CA). She was 20 miles from the finish of Day 3. She managed the Quadbuster and says she feels pretty good, despite the heat. She figures Bike Goddess finished before lunch as she's just eating through those miles.
Trek420 has overcome a challenge today gang... last year she had to SAG 20 miles in on this leg; now she's almost to the finish of the stage.
Jimmy "spazzdog" Olsen
Lifecycle Report - Day 4, part 3
Well... no news since the lunch post. Hoping all is well out there.
**Update... breaking news**
Trk420 txt me at 6:54PM CA time. She made it up the Evil Twins through major headwinds and mucho dust (seems the fields were a tad dry) by 6:00. She was informed by the crew that the final 10 mi were on dusty dangerous roads and huge headwinds. Thus she chose to SAG in.
Just got off the phone with her, and despite a bit of sadness she seems to be in good spirits.
She says thanks to all who have sent msgs... all appreciated.
A message to the owner of Dusty the Rivendale (jobob?); Trek420 says Dusty has a twin in the ride.
A message to SadieKate; a jillion MS150 jerseys on this ride. You should be proud
And that's it for tonight, this is Jimmy "spazzdog" Olsen signing off
Lifecycle Report - Day 6, part 2
9:30 am PST
Trek420 reported in from Pit 1. She want quite the excited cyclist, let me tell you. Amd laughter from her surounding buddies (unseure who they were) she explained that, due to a small equipment failure for Bike Goddess (sunglasses??), Trek420 found herself in front of the speed demon. She stated it was short lived and BG blew past her up the road a piece and that was that.
11:00 am PST Trek420 txt's from Pit 2... apparently the riders are being cared for by a pit stop full of French maids. Hey! What's not to like there!! :o
Lifecycle Report - Day 6, part 3
1:09 pm PST - Trek420 hits the lunch stop
2:50 pm PST - pit 2 and still smilin'
3:37 pm PST - She arrives at an impromptu rest stop manned by past riders and friends in a "Paradise" motif.
6:50 pm PST - Trek has put her bike to pasture for the night and is digging' into some well earned chow. She asked that I mention that she has done extensive research on the whole "Boobage banging on descent" issue and has personally experienced no problem :D
signing off for the night...
spazz-o-reporter
Tomorrow, The Big Finish.
Full reports from the riders upon their return: "In Their Own Words: The Odyssey"
Lifecycle Report - Day 7: The Big Finish
5:30 am PST - sent the following as my morning wakeup msg:
Hallelujah! It's Day 7 and you are almost home!
Saddle up grrl, it's time to close the rodeo.
Ride tall in the saddle. You done good!
Will keep you posted as I receive news. It's a 60.8 mi stage to LA. If you're in that next of the woods, go greet our TE sisters!
11:00 am PST - got a call from Trek420. She's at Pit 2 and assessing her energy level. Despite the feeling that she may have to SAG in today, she's feeling really great about her performance. As she put it " I've gone faster and further... flown higher than I did last year and I feel great!"
To that I say, She most certainly has! Congratulations to you Trek420, whether you ride or carry your bike across the finish.
1:00 pm PST - Trek420 is STILL pedaling. She's at the lunch stop with 15 mi to go. Keep chanting TE... keep chanting!
2:49 pm PST - Yee-hah!! Trek420 has finished the 2005 San Francisco to Los Angeles Aids Lifecycle.
She's at the finish area, probably looking for the other TE grrls that rode (5481 Bike Goddess, 3370 Annerol, 5292 Amondala) Bigs cheers for all of them gang!
And that's it for me. Reporting from Massachusetts, this is spazzdog, returning to my usual routine.
Lucy? you got some 'splaining to do
I wrote: "Last year Tracy Chapman rode, did I ever tell you the Tracy Chapman story? Remind me when I get back. And when I crewed on CAR4 Gregg Louganis rode (both did not camp, stayed in hotels)."
Well, I'm back and gathering my thoughts will be starting on a journal of the ride so check my homepage in about 3 weeks I'll let you know as new pictures are uploaded. Just taking a moment between washloads, and before i go pick up Mae (can't wait!) got tons of stinky bike clothes to wash so before i forget to tell the aforementioned Tracy Chapman story. It's kind of typical of the humor of the ride.
One gets familiar with your "neighborhood", your block in the tent city and last year on Day 1 I was talking to the couple next to us about an unusual experience she had on the road to Aptos. Seems she was riding along, just minding her own business when a rider calls out, passes her, looks back to see that he's clear, prepares to merge back to the right (sounds good so far, eh?) and then stops dead in his tracks right in front of her (yikes, she avoided the crash) points at her and starts screaming "you're Traci Chapman! You're Traci! They told me you'd be on the ride! You're..."
In a voice quite calm, she just says "uh, no, I'm not Traci." Convinced or not of that fact, he rides on. So that night telling us this her husband joked "and we're going to sign her up to sing on talent night and PROOVE without a doubt that she's not Traci" we all got a laugh.
So I think it was the night 3? 4? I'm standing in the dinner line and the guy behind me starts snapping pictures wildly. "What's up?" I ask. "It's not every day you're 4 feet away from Traci Chapman" he says. "Yeah, right." I think but then I look and dang, it IS Chapman (who looks magnificent but NOTHING like my neighbor other than they both are black and have dreds). And that night, she sang a beautiful solo concert to us.
Anyway by now my neighbor's story is around the camp, and we know Traci Chapman IS on the ride (Traci? are you here? she passed me many times, everyone does but she's a real strong rider, nice cadence, good pedal stroke). And by morning we are seeing a few folks with plain white t-shirts that are hand lettered "I'm not Traci". It seemed to start in the morning with a few of the women of color riders, but literaly by lunch the fashion statement is spreading; from huge hairy bearded white men "I'm not Traci" to older riders (our oldest is Bert Shaw, good to see him back at 77) the more rediculous the person ie: could not possibly be Traci the better.
Where is the AIDS Lifecycle jersey that says 'I'm not Traci"? ;-)
Bike Goddess 15 minutes af fame continues....
I think she's up to a half an hour now ;-)
Here's a write up of Nancy aka BG on the lifecycle website:
http://experience.aidslifecycle.org/...ay3/index.html
:D
