Riding with Compassion Blog

We did it! Our friends met us at Mass Maritime to ride the final 13 miles with us. It was great to have company. We were quite emotional the final 2 miles as the fatigue of the past 29 days, and the emotion of what we had done started to sink in. At the CCALS…

It was supposed to rain today, but once again we had a lovely, sunny, cool day to do our ride. We rode from Newport to Wareham, and it was a very pleasant ride mostly on side roads and some of it along the coast which was beautiful. For the most part this bike trip has…

Tires that is, not terrain. It was pretty chilly today (about 48 and cloudy). The day started with Diane’s tire having a blow out luckily it showed itself before we left the hotel. We think it was due to the four wheeling we did on yesterday’s trail. It was definitely not made for skinny tires.…

It was supposed to be a pretty straight forward ride to Mystic today but alas it was not to be. There were a lot of headwinds, lots of hills, and a few gravel bike paths made for mountain bikes, not triathlon and road bikes. But the biggest obstacle was due to a huge oil truck…

What gorgeous scenery we had biking along the coast of CT to our final destination of Saybrook Point where we are staying at a wonderful Inn. The day started with a 15min ride over to see a family. It was quite brisk when we left both the hotel and the family’s house. But we warmed…

Well, that didn’t go as planned 10 miles in Jim’s seat came loose at the frame. We went back to go to a bike shop, but it was closed. Jim tried to fix it himself but that didn’t work so we rode over to another bike store in Greenwich, Greenwich Bicycles, who were super nice…

It was a rainy morning for our Yonkers event today, but it was still lovely. Team John and Team Quinn were there in force. The Mayor of Yonkers, Mike Spano, and Yonkers Assemblyman, Nader Sayegh, were there as well.  Despite the rain, we rode into the Empire Casino parking lot to lots of cheering. Jim…

We were on a gravel trail in the woods for 19 miles which for traffic was nice but on a Tri bike and road bike it’s a little slow going but beautiful.  Then the real fun began as we weaved through Newark- not recommended- and ended up being routed to a bridge and tunnel that…

We made it to NJ today! What a lovely day. The weather was perfect as we rode into NJ from PA. A lot of the ride was on a bike path. We went over the Delaware River bridge which was beautiful. We saw baby geese and stopped at a bike store where an 8-week-old puppy…

Day 20 AKA the start of the 10-day countdown to Falmouth MA! Over to Lancaster and Amish country in PA we went. First, we back tracked 10miles to ride over to see a family in New Castle.  Then from there we rode to Lancaster County. Holy hills! We’ve never seen so many or so long…