Statistics from the ride
Overall distance: 604 km
Longest ride: 200 km (6.5 hours of riding, 7:15AM start)
Avg speed of longest ride: 31km/h (calm conditions, and a 5km/hr tail wind just outside of Brockville)
Approx. number of revolutions made by our legs during the 200km ride: 33,000
Fuel for each day's ride: 6-7 large water bottles (half with Gatorade), 2-3 bananas, granola bars, peanuts (salted), 2 Power bars, 12 inch all-dressed sub for lunch with 2 cookies and juice, 4 Aspirin.
Mechanical problems: nothing serious, a loose headset & handle bars, two flat tires (one exploding in the hotel lobby in Toronto), and a few miss-aligned gears by the end of the trip
Estimated time needed for legs and backside to recover: 1-2 weeks (except Anne, who could have probably rode back to Toronto the next day)
Rain: only 5 min, just outside of Montreal
Number of donors supporting the team: over 250
Overall funds to date: over $21,000 (and still growing)
Stories collected from those affected by breast cancer while on the road: 5
Approximate number of Novartis employees awaiting our arrival: 100
Number of inquiries about next year's ride (already): 10
...and about the blog?
Days the blog has now been live: 13
Number of members: 7
Number of posts: 25
Number of visits: 350
Average visits/day: 36
Average visit length: 6 minutes 15 seconds
Number of pages viewed: 1,201
Longest ride: 200 km (6.5 hours of riding, 7:15AM start)
Avg speed of longest ride: 31km/h (calm conditions, and a 5km/hr tail wind just outside of Brockville)
Approx. number of revolutions made by our legs during the 200km ride: 33,000
Fuel for each day's ride: 6-7 large water bottles (half with Gatorade), 2-3 bananas, granola bars, peanuts (salted), 2 Power bars, 12 inch all-dressed sub for lunch with 2 cookies and juice, 4 Aspirin.
Mechanical problems: nothing serious, a loose headset & handle bars, two flat tires (one exploding in the hotel lobby in Toronto), and a few miss-aligned gears by the end of the trip
Estimated time needed for legs and backside to recover: 1-2 weeks (except Anne, who could have probably rode back to Toronto the next day)
Rain: only 5 min, just outside of Montreal
Number of donors supporting the team: over 250
Overall funds to date: over $21,000 (and still growing)
Stories collected from those affected by breast cancer while on the road: 5
Approximate number of Novartis employees awaiting our arrival: 100
Number of inquiries about next year's ride (already): 10
...and about the blog?
Days the blog has now been live: 13
Number of members: 7
Number of posts: 25
Number of visits: 350
Average visits/day: 36
Average visit length: 6 minutes 15 seconds
Number of pages viewed: 1,201
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