Hey Corries,
Looks like you were able to find me, I have the delayed self-pledge so I will be participating for sure no need to worry about me not reaching the mark yet

-- Edited by Red Riding Hood on Thursday 25th of June 2009 02:42:51 AM

Morrisjo, tasers are fun ;) Just make sure I'm wearing something where the barbs have a chance. :D

Lori...I kinda know the feeling....with moving, I was off the bike for almost 2 weeks. I'm just happy I've had a chance to get some km's in these last few days.

Also, if anyone is still looking, I believe Triman is still looking for a roomie (or is it tentie, in this case?) :)

-- Edited by Psycho Mike on Wednesday 24th of June 2009 04:28:32 PM

I'll bring nasal strips ... they are suppose to help prevent snoring ...

Lol sounds good Corries

LOL good point there Mike

I'm in A31 with Corries :)

Heading down to Calgary in the morning, visit some family and get a good sleep before the ride on Saturday!

Can't wait!!!!!!!

Hehehe....well, tonight I did a bunch of wrenching on the bike....new chain (wow, I stretched the stocker a bit in 650 km!), everything is clean and lubed, saddle is adjusted and tightened, new mount for the GPS (broke the last one...grrrr) and packed the panniers.

Oh...one of the pannies is my first aid kit ;) Gotta be able to patch Morrisjo up if I can't control the psycho-ness ;)

Never mind. I saw from some of the other posts that people have their tent numbers. Guess I am making my call after all.

Thanks for the news, Jason :)

I didn't hit the $2500, so I had to commit to the difference as of race day. Because of this, I was unable to do the tent check in online. I guess they just assign a random tent mate saturday ?

btw - Psycho Mike it sounds like you might be scaring your potential tent mate. Perhaps a bit of small talk would put him at ease on saturday. Just light conversation stuff like "killer uphills today eh ? " or "does this rag smell like chloroform to you ?"

does anybody know the number of participants?

crazy, way more then i thought

And being an accountant with some free time this afternoon, I found that the teams on the website raised just over $4.6MM. There are a bunch of individuals who aren't on teams who don't show up on the list so I'm guessing the Alberta crew came close or topped the BC total of $6.9MM. And there will be a bunch of people doing top ups tomorrow to ride and/or dropping off more money ... like me with a few hundred more to add to my total. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say we walloped the BC total.

That's okay I ended up falling asleep pretty close after getting into camp and then not waking up till later on day 2... i fell behind and ended up being last rider for a bit because of an injury but fortunatly finished anyways, sorry for not meeting you

Hey Tammy,

I'm happy you got the 45 k in, excellent job! I ended up twisting my wrist pretty bad around 20 k and had to have it taped up for the rest of the ride, pretty sore but i'm not complaining it was worth it! I am actually thinking I will be back next year!

Hey all. Wish I could have met some of you out there. I actually came by your tents but no one was there. I think there might have been someone in Red's and Tammy's tent, but did not want to disturb (sounds like you were sleeping!).
Wish I could have met Mike as well. Worried that we have not heard from Morrisjo ... not assuming anything there Psycho! Anyhow, had a blast and sorry to hear about the injuries.

Hey Wayne,

That was me you probably heard sleeping, I felt bad for not meeting everyone but I was so tired I went to bed really early (told you I snore.)

Morrisjo, glad to hear you're alive and that Psycho was on his best behaviour

Tammy, you're very welcome, thanks for helping me as well with getting my chain looked after. I am very proud that you biked as much as you did with the amount of pain you were in, good job on keeping on keeping on!