Jackie has completed day 2 of 5! The first thing that I will say is how much Jackie appreciates all of the support that she has been receiving from people while she is on her ride, via text messages and voice mails. Because of a lack phone charging opportunities Jackie has been keeping her phone mostly turned off during the day in order to preserve the battery (it is her alarm clock as well phone) so if you have been trying to call her and get her voice mail all the time that is why.
Last Friday evening Jackie and the other riders met in New York for the kick off of 300 miles of biking riding, raising climate awareness and probably some soul searching as well. Jackie met up with 3 other women on the ride who are reasonably well matched with herself and have spent the majority of the ride together offering support and motivation.
Leading up to the ride there was not much information regarding the terrain, but it was assumed that because hills were not being highlighted there would not be a great many hills during the course of the ride. Unfortunately for the riders there are in fact a lot of hills which are pushing the riders further than they had expected to be this early in the ride. Jackie has found that the talks in the evening are very helpful for keeping her morale up because they remind her of why she is on this ride.
Tonight the riders are staying in dormitories so Jackie is hoping for a restful sleep after a suddenly cold night last night. Tomorrow marks the 3rd and longest day of the ride at 70 miles. Some people are saying that the route is also one of the hilliest routes of the ride, but as information from organizers continues to be sparse it is still unclear what the actual terrain will be.
Jackie is (understandably) tired, but is keeping up high spirits and is looking forward to completely the 300 miles and riding into Washington DC on Wednesday.
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Dave, I know she's worried about keeping her phone charged, next time you talk to her tell Jackie we've been watching the progress of the ride via the many web sites of both climate ride and riders personal posts and photo's on various personal web sites (google it). I think we saw Jackie in one photo. Also National Geographic and CBS News in NYC highlighted the ride! We'll hopefully talk to her after her ride to congratulate her. I'm glad we did that hilly ride so she could train a bit for the hills, she did so great I have no doubt she's leading the pack, GO JACKIE!!
love, Cathy
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