{"id":16,"date":"2014-02-24T22:05:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2014-05-09T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:01:18","slug":"faq-about-my-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Facts about my ride"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Q: When do I start this ride?\u00a0 A:\u00a0 Shooting for mid\u00a0June 2014 from Seattle, WA<\/li>\n
  2. Q: When do you expect to finish?\u00a0 A: Hopefully\u00a0nine weeks later around\u00a0Aug\u00a016th in Long Beach Island, NJ<\/li>\n
  3. Q: Where will you stay at night? A: Combination of camping, motels, and warmshowers.com locations (people that open their homes to cyclists traveling by)<\/li>\n
  4. Q: How many miles a day do you plan to ride? A: I plan to ride 70 miles a day, 6 days a week.\u00a0\u00a0 70 miles a day at 12 mph an hour, with breaks for meals, takes about 8-10 hrs.\u00a0 I think one of my biggest challenges will be to start my ride at a slower pace and build my daily mileage over time.<\/li>\n
  5. Q: Do you have your route mapped out?\u00a0 A: Adventure Cycling is a not for profit cyclist advocacy organization that publishes many routes around the country.\u00a0\u00a0 I will be using their Northern Tier route for the first 20% of my journey.\u00a0 I leave their route in North Dakota so that I can visit Mt. Rushmore.\u00a0\u00a0 The rest of the trip is mine to develop<\/li>\n
  6. Q: Have you ever attempted this before?\u00a0 A:When I was 24 I completed a solo ride down rte 1 from San Francisco to LA.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And last summer I did a test one week 480 mile ride from\u00a0my home in Westchester NY to Canada.<\/li>\n
  7. Q: What will you do for meals?\u00a0 A:I plan to have snacks with me and stop for all meals along the way.\u00a0\u00a0 During my 2013 one week trip to Canada I had a camping stove to cook dinner with.\u00a0\u00a0 But I was usually very exhausted from riding\u00a0 and didn’t have the energy\u00a0to cook.\u00a0\u00a0 And after speaking to people that have done this solo ride, they recommend not carrying stove, pots, and fuel.\u00a0\u00a0 They would just grab food in towns as they rode thru.<\/li>\n
  8. Q: Why are you going from West to East?\u00a0 A:\u00a0 As many previous cyclists have learned, and some learned the hard way, the trade wins blow west to east!<\/li>\n
  9. Q: Where will you cross the Rockies? A: Cascade Mtns in WA and ID.\u00a0\u00a0 But I have\u00a0been warned that the Appalachian Mtns in PA are also difficult.\u00a0 Both physically and psychologically (you think you are home and then someone put these mtns in your way!)<\/li>\n
  10. Q: What technology will you have with you?\u00a0\u00a0 A: I will have my IPad, IPhone, Garmin, and a battery backup to charge these devises.<\/li>\n
  11. Q: How are you able to take off 2 months from work?\u00a0 A: July and August are my slowest months.\u00a0\u00a0 But more importantly, I am very fortunate to have a business partner and an amazing staff that can handle my work when I am gone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A matter of fact, I think many of them are looking forward to me being out of their hair!<\/li>\n
  12. Q: How many total miles?\u00a0 A: I estimate around 3,500 miles<\/li>\n
  13. Q: Why are you doing the Northern Tier route?\u00a0 A: Three reasons: 1) I have never been in that part of the country 2) I think it will be beautiful and 3) One of my closest friend from college, David Sielewicz, was killed in an Air Force C-141 training exercise over Harlem MT. on 11\/30\/92.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I have always wanted to see the memorial<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Q: When do I start this ride?\u00a0 A:\u00a0 Shooting for mid\u00a0June 2014 from Seattle, WA Q: When do you expect to finish?\u00a0 A: Hopefully\u00a0nine weeks later around\u00a0Aug\u00a016th in Long Beach Island, NJ Q: Where will you stay at night? A: Combination of camping, motels, and warmshowers.com locations (people that open their homes to cyclists traveling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}