My First Day!!!

The women on this trip are amazing.

Judy is 67, about to be 68; she had non-smokers lung cancer and had part of her lung removed - in January! Here she is less than three months later riding across country!

Another woman broke her pelvis in December in a biking accident. There's a woman who had a stroke and another who has edema in her leg as a result of cancer surgery and has to ride with a compression stocking and massage her leg to keep it from swelling too much. Then theres the woman who has serious bridge phobia and has worked long and hard, approaching bridges a few feet at a time, until she could ride over a whole bridge without having an anxiety attack.

Today was a first for me - literally. I am nearly always at the back of the pack, last one in. But for some reason today I was one of the first three. I wasn't any faster than usual so I'm not sure why. Many of these women are marathon runners, tri-athletes, and veterans of many impressive bike trips.

We dipped our tires in the Pacific ocean at Dog Beach in San Diego. I've got a photo and I've discovered it is possible to get it onto this site, but I don't know how yet. We rode about 33 miles, clumbed about 2000 feet. It was about 85 degrees and sunny. One day down 56 to go. 33 miles down, 3077 to go.