As of now, I plan to fly to Seattle on June 16th, the Monday after Father’s day and then start my journey the next day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As I get closer and closer to this adventure, the reality is starting to set in.\u00a0\u00a0 I have the map of the United States spread out on my dining room table.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Every time I sit in front of it and look at the distance from Seattle to NJ, I find it just too daunting to imagine.\u00a0\u00a0 I take my fingers and measure the 480 mile distance from NY to Canada, which I\u00a0cycled last summer in a week, and then I try to copy that spread of my fingers over and over again across\u00a0the entire map.\u00a0\u00a0 In this scientific precision way to measure, I come up with roughly 9 finger spreads, or converted to joules I mean weeks, = 9 weeks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is nine weeks?\u00a0\u00a0 Have any of us done something non-stop for 9 weeks?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Think about sleep away camp, BUT BY\u00a0YOURSELF!\u00a0 \u00a0 I have no idea what this will be like.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I take comfort in the fact that many other people\u00a0have done this challenge but I can’t fathom what this will be like for me.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Will my body hold up?\u00a0\u00a0 Will my bike hold up?\u00a0\u00a0 Will my mind ….(this one will leave myself open to too many sarcastic comments).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, I will keep you posted on my training as the clock ticks down to launch date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As of now, I plan to fly to Seattle on June 16th, the Monday after Father’s day and then start my journey the next day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As I get closer and closer to this adventure, the reality is starting to set in.\u00a0\u00a0 I have the map of the United States spread out on my dining room […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}