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We started our day with our very accustomed 5am alarms. Today seemed a bit different - no usual jokes about getting up early - not much talking - no “maybe we should take the day off and postpone the ride until the team is better rested”! (As said by Victor every morning since day 2 roughly quoting a famous Bill Murray line in Stripes from the 1980s) We got packed up and out on the trail fairly early, We rode about 14 miles on the remainder of a rail trail trail that we spent

Very familiar trails today heading south toward our endpoint at Bridgeport, CT where we ride a car ferry back to Long Island. 61 miles mostly on paved and some unpaved bike trails with pretty scenery and only a couple pop up rain showers. Delicious muffins and smoothies in New Paltz - maybe the best of the trip! And a really delicious warm olives, cucumber salads and personal pizzas for dinner in Poughkeepsie- turns out It was restaurant team Puppy went to last year during ou

We had a 65 mile day scheduled from Albany to Rhinebeck, New York but Mother Nature stepped in and made a relatively easy day into a bit of an adventure. By the end of the day, the team had accomplished a little more than 40 miles of the route (the first 20 and the last 20 miles give or take!). So, let’s do a little explaining. We woke this morning knowing that the day would be extremely wet and that flooding was a real possibility but with little flexibility in our schedule

The weather pattern in New York shifted today with a low pressure system, pushing through in the next couple of days. Today we saw an opportunity to push our miles early to stay out of the front moving from west to east. We were pretty successful in our 70 mile effort by getting a relatively early start in Fort Plain and by staying on the trail throughout the entire session. Kevin worked hard to bring us some egg sandwiches at about 25 mile mark. And some Jersey Mike’s subs a