Saturday, August 17, 2013

The riders are home. They flew into Dulles International Airport around 3:20pm today and we picked them up. They are already talking about doing a Century Ride Labor Day Weekend.

I'll post some of the pictures Karl took with his good camera when I get a chance, which might not be until next weekend.

Friday, August 16, 2013 Last Full Day in San Diego

Today was Karl and Zach last day in San Diego. They were touring an old wooden battleship when I spoke to him a little while ago. He said they had been sightseeing around the harbor.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Karl and Zach rode their final 8 miles around San Diego before dropping their bikes off at the bike shop to be boxed up and shipped home. They will be using public transportation for the rest of their time in San Diego before their flight home Saturday. I can't wait to see them again and neither can Zach's family.

Wednesday August 14, 2013

I just spoke to Karl. He told me they ended up with a total of 26 miles yesterday and they put in a total of 32 miles today. They didn't make it to Sea World today, instead they went to Sunset Cliffs and Mission Beach. At mission beach they spend some time in the  amusement park. I don't think  they will get many more miles in tomorrow since they have to get their bikes to the bike shop to be boxed up and shipped home. Karl did say they are changing hotels to one closer to the bike shop tomorrow, which has a shuttle service for them to use when they no longer have their bikes to ride.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

I spoke to Karl a little while ago. He wasn't able to get plane tickets to fly home until Saturday so they will be relaxing and doing some sightseeing until then. They were on their way into a Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum when he called. He told me tomorrow they might visit Sea World. He told me so far today they rode 10 miles around San Diego and will probably add a few more miles before the day is over. He has made arrangements to have their bikes boxed up and shipped home through a bike shop but they won't be able to do that until Thursday so they will have a few more days to ride them around the town.

Monday, August 12, 2013 Finish Line

Karl and Zach finished their ride today by reaching San Diego, California. They rode 37 miles from Alpine, California to the coast and then 4 miles to a hotel giving them a grand total of 3401 miles for the trip. Tomorrow they have to look into getting their bikes and themselves home. They will also do a little sightseeing.

Karl sent a few pictures from the beach. Sorry they are a little blurry.

Here is a map of their entire ride.


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Sunday, August 11, 2013

I heard from Karl just after 7pm our time. They are still riding. They have gone 44 miles so far. He told me it was a 14 mile uphill ride to highest peak of the Sierra Nevada Mountains they will ride over. After making it over the peak they have gone done down into several shallow valleys only to have a long climbs back out, Karl called them humps. He said they have two more humps to go over in the next 12 miles to go before it is all downhill into San Diego, which appears to be their goal for today. He wasn't able to tell me how many miles until they reached San Diego because his GPS was set to avoid highways and he plans to be on one at some point. Karl mentioned they can only go about 4 miles per hour up the mountains.

Karl is going to call me later to give me another update, so I will post again when I hear from him. He did send me a picture.

Just heard from Karl again, They didn't make it to San Diego, they stopped in Alpine for the night. The rode 66 miles today and have 35 left to go tomorrow. Karl said they stopped at Alpine because Zach had a flat tire about 2 miles outside town and it was getting late enough he was afraid the sun might be in a position to prevent drivers from seeing them.

Karl told me their ascent today was 5000ft and currently their elevation is 1750 ft. Tomorrow they won't have to do any climbing.