Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Day Three Woodstock NB to Moncton NB



After the great reception followed by a celebration McFlurry then another great dinner cooked by our chief Gary, it was off to the room nice long hot shower and one of the most comfortable beds I have ever slept in at a hotel.

Day three was another very early morning with the longest riding day of 287 km from Woodstock to Moncton. The day started out with a heavy fog, but you could feel the sun just waiting to burn it off and give us another spectacular day. Temperature was in the low 20's and light winds.

My crew was to ride first this morning, setting off in the heavy fog, there were a couple of detours starting off so a few hill climbs were involved in our early morning ride, but by the time we were an hour in the sun was out and we had settled into a nice comfortable pace line and clicking off some quick kms. Megan and I took over for the second shift of the day and had a great morning ride as the road began to become more rolling hills as we made our way along the Saint John river valley toward Fredericton. I choose to stay on the road for a third shift, who were the quickest group of riders and managed to hang on for the push into Fredericton. It was a great morning full of riding and then time of some much needed lunch.

The afternoon was to bring us out along the river on the flattest ride of the day right along the river outside of Fredericton heading to Moncton. Megan's goal for the day was to reach a 100km ridden since her trip began, with such a nice flat road to ride she and I had a great shift and she blew through the 100km mark to the cheers and encouragement of the rest of the team from the RV and it just happened that the support/photo crew were right with us to record her achievement.

In order to get into Moncton a little earlier to give the teams a little more rest time, we leap frogged the last couple of shifts of the afternoon giving us simultaneous riders cover different parts of the route. It was nice to get into our destination for the night and have time settle in with the team for a great supper and a little time to sit around and chat, including a little sing along with Jay on the guitar, lots of brown eyed girls on this trip so that had to be the first song of the night. Gary pulled off another great evening meal and it was an early night for the crews again as we had to be up and ready to roll for the Moncton Mike's Bike Shop 200km community ride by 6:50am.

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