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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Day 58

Start: Napa, CA
End: San Francisco, CA
Distance today: 68.6
Total: 3840.3

For some reason I couldn't sleep last night. I ended up taking a moonlight stroll through Skyline wilderness park around midnight. Maybe it was the anticipation if the last day of the trip... Maybe it was something I ate... Either way, I got about 4 hours of sleep last night, so I was wide awake this morning for our last day!

After some annoying construction, we had a pleasant but hot ride through the hills north of San Francisco... Then we got to Sausalito, where we got out first glimpse of SF and and our first gust of the cool ocean breeze from the Pacific!!

We rode the rest of the way over the Golden Gate with big stupid grins on our faces 'cause WE'RE THERE!!!

COAST TO COAST, BABY!!!!

And if that wasn't enough, I finished off the day by riding my fully-loaded bike up Jones St in San Francisco at somewhere around 24% grade!

We're done! (by the way, if you are reading this, you are required to post a comment below)

So... Now what?

Oh that's right... start training for the marathon!

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13 comments:

  1. Bill LawsonSeptember 27, 2010 at 5:13 AM

    Congratulations! Thanks for the write-ups. They were most entertaining.

    --Bill

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  2. UnknownSeptember 27, 2010 at 5:25 AM

    Congrats you two! The journey of a lifetime, complete with a victory photo :-)

    I hope it was everything you thought it would be!

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  3. NatSeptember 27, 2010 at 1:01 PM

    Woohoo! Great job! Where's your next destination?

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  4. UnknownSeptember 27, 2010 at 5:35 PM

    Congratulations! Enjoy San Francisco!

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  5. UnknownSeptember 27, 2010 at 7:13 PM

    Thanks Michelle and Chris for providing all the vicarious exercise, I'm exhausted but happy ;-) seriously it's great accomplishment and I salute you both.

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  6. DoriSeptember 28, 2010 at 12:51 AM

    Wow. Amazing job. Not only did you get across the whole country in under 2 months, you did an absolutely amazing job of taking all of us along with you. I loved all your commentary and photos.

    Also, I really am serious about aiming at doing a similar ride some day, when I have a summer to set aside for biking.

    Are you doing the NYC marathon this fall then? Where will you be until then?

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  7. UnknownSeptember 29, 2010 at 5:02 PM

    CONGRATS!!!

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  8. JoSeptember 29, 2010 at 5:20 PM

    :)

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  9. Chia-YiSeptember 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM

    yay!

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  10. ChelseaSeptember 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM

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  11. ChelseaSeptember 30, 2010 at 11:30 PM

    :D It has been awesome to read this! I fell behind occasionally, haha, but always came back to catch up. WELL DONE, GUYS!!! Looking forward to seeing you in the near-ish future.

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  12. TimOctober 1, 2010 at 6:06 PM

    Impressive. Most Impressive.

    Best post was the bear cliff-hanger. I think you should have deliberately not posted the next day just to build the suspense.

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  13. UnknownOctober 9, 2010 at 8:02 PM

    What an exhilarating finish! Must have still had your superman lungs from the high altitude exercise to bomb around those San Fran Hills!

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