Jason crossing river

Day 3 done.

Hills - single track - rivers.

Jason was modelling for a magazine.

Heading on ferry to mainland for ride tomorrow
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Day 3

One would think 80km would be easy after 130km ... However today was a hard day of climbing and topped off with 15 km of single track. The bananas and oranges split today and the bananas were in at 6:12 while the oranges rode in at 7:30, although the oranges seemed to want more single track and rode an extra 5km. All and all things went well but I did hate the fresh cut trail and fell off one of the bridges, Jason and Charles were not there to tell me what to do. Thomas also took a tumble but he was just trying to impress the girl behind us.

4 days to go, go banana

Brian Edmond
Crank Software Inc.

River crossing live

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Dinner at the BC bike race

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Day 2 - post shower

Well....it's done. Today was kinda a how do we get everyone over there day where there is some singletrack day. So inorder to this they had us travel some 123km of fire and logging roads straight through Vancouver island. It was long and boring. However at the end we were rewarded with 2-3km of singletrack.

The highlight of the day was being interviewed by the ride guide. So hopefully go banana will be featured.

Also to note, today go banana decided to forgo the glory of being mid pack and decided to join go orange in their back of the pack placement. Stay tuned to see what go banana does tomorrow.

Going to go sleep now before I need to wake up and go biking tomorrow.

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Day 2

These legs have just biked 125km of BC logging roads and they are tired. More to come after I shower.

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Go banana breakfast

Of course it includes bananas
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Hopefully today is better

Yesterday's ride involverd showing up at both aid stations and being told there was no water, and it was 38 degress out. We were baked. We are told they doubled the number of water stations, but the really issue is if there will be water at them???

Aside from the dehydration the riding was fun up until the anger set in.

Day 2 is 125km and it will be extra hot out there....awesome!
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Water crisis

So here Thomas and I are at the second aid station waiting for water. We have been waiting for 10 minutes and no eta. Lots of heat and single track today. Bit of heat stroke but that is all.

Make that 30 min ...

Brian Edmond
Crank Software Inc.

Day Zero!!! - The final countdown

Closer....closer....so close I can taste it!

We are here at the site of day 1 for the BC bike race and have successfully registered ourselves, aquired our free booty (another name for pirate treasure), and checked our bikes in for their last day of relaxing.

Next step....dinner. Luckily we've been training for this one for the last two days (Keira's parents have been extra gracious to us and have feed us better then a 5 star buffet). After that there is the race brief which will hopefully help us in our quest to not get eaten by anything and finish the race.

For the gamblers in the crowd looking for insider info to help with the line on the race
- Thomas is feeling a little fluish
- Charle's last minute fix to his fork seems to have been successful
- Brian seems to be clear of saddle sores
- Jason is 6 foot 3

Call your booky and get your bets in!

That's all for now, but stay toon for constant updates. Maybe even a mid ride post.



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5 pounds

5 pounds that is the weight we put on in the last 2 days. We have arrived in BC and decided that eating was the best thing to do before the race.

Things are hopeful other that Charles broken fork and Thomas fever. Don't worry though Jason and I are fine.

Off to the race today

Brian
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So ... this is what hot is like!

"I think that I'm melting"

Those were pretty much the shared sentiments from this past weekend Saturday training ride. In training for the BC Bike Race, Team Go Banana and Team Go Orange have fallen into a steady rhythm for the long weekend rides (typically from 4 to 6 hours, 70 - 100km):

• Arrive at designated meeting location .... grumble about how early it is
• Pretend to stretch ... grumble about "going breakfast instead"
• Get on bike ... grumble about biking in general
• Ride for several hours and many kilometers ... more random grumbling
• Stop ... end of grumble

This weekend, there was more to grumble about: "The heat". Heat and humidity were the highest they have been yet this season ... and the training stops for no weather.

I think that we have either been spoiled by the relatively cool weather this year or perhaps have been in a zone and can't believe that we've actually been biking steadily for the last three/four mouths and it is only now that we are hitting the heat. After a couple of hours, it felt like we had been riding for twice as long and we called it quits at 65K.

Team concensus ... let's hope that it isn't hot and humid in BC!

Thomas