Im sitting in Banff, hoping to get my garmin all properly set up at the library. I likely won’t be ...
Jet-lagged and approaching Cairo
Categories: Events, Tour d'Afrique
I’m a few hours from landing in Cairo for the what I hope will be one of my greatest adventures. Nervous would be an understatement. Ive biked far and long, probably further than most anybody you’ve met. Ive biked further than most people have driven a car in one stretch. I’m not nervous about biking 7300 miles. I am nervous about giving up everything I know and the many possibilities of what can happen. No home, no job, no beers at the regular haunts or workouts with friends, no more of my routine that I’ve practiced and honed over the last 5 years. I say 5 years, because that is when I last shook things up by doing Race Across America.
Why am I going to Africa? That’s a tough one to completely determine. Part Raiders of the Lost Ark fantasy, part adventure in one of the last places not consumed by corporate chains and parking lots. Its because I don’t know much about it and it intimidates. It’s the scale of it. Bring on the longer, steeper, more extreme races.
Hey Bryce,
Your reports are great! I would say, what you’re doing is a once in a life time adventure. Don’t look back. Finish in good form, and live in the moment. Things will work out.
Rick