Many thanks to SIR and the entire group of volunteers who made the Cascade ride such a wonderful event!!
I have never ridden so far so fast, and in more ways than I can count, my ride experience was made possible by the wonderful support I encountered along the route. Thank you for holding my bike, filling my water bottles, making my sandwiches, scooping my ice cream, waking me up in the morning, stuffing my manky sock with ice and anticipating my every need, mile after mile.
You guys really rock! I wonder how long it will take for me to realise that I have to open my own can of soda again!
Thanks again everyone for all your kindness!
Carol
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The first C1200 ride report I’ve seen is from Geoff Swarts here.
I’m going to be grouping links to stories and photos on the Stories and Pictures page, which has a link at the top of this site.
Feel free to post a ride report (or even a short story or experience) as a comment here, and we will move it to an appropriate place on the site.
Please let us know of others by adding a comment to this post. We will also make a login to this site available to riders so you can add your report or other comments.
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Bell, Carol 14:00
Dougherty, Pat 17:10
Drake, Isabelle 14:00
Hanson, Chris 14:00
Houck, Timothy 13:02
Huffman, Sam 10:40
Kassen, Jake 14:00
Koen, Bob 16:35
Muoneke, Vincent 14:02
Neel, Maile 16:36
Stroethoff, Karel 17:03
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Adler, Audrey 90:56
Aoyama, Eiji 88:50
Applewhaite, John DNF
Barill, Tracy 83:55
Beebe, Ward 87:00
Berube, Thomas DNF
Blauer, Anthony 88:50
Bonner, Ken 64:41
Boxer, Daniel 87:44
Butt, Clyde DNF
Chang, Jennifer DNF
Chase, Barry 86:24
Coldwell, Charles 84:09
Devereux, Drew DNF
Dulieu, Michelle 92:20
Ellis, John Lee 85:16
Fingert, John DNF
Fleck, Chester 79:15
Fox, Mike 89:18
Fritzinger, Micah 82:27
Gilbert, Anthony 91:40
Goursolle, Kitty 91:14
Grabiak, Larry 89:22
Grant, Peter 90:05
Hamilton, Ryan 82:31
Haynes, Martin 90:04
Hennighausen, Lothar 90:04
Hofstede, Jeffery DNF
Honda, Nicole 91:40
Huffman, Sam DNF
Knoblauch, Tom 85:16
Koen, Bob DNF
Koenig, Urs 81:11
Larson, Lesli 91:14
McHale, Mike DNF
Mikkelsen, Ole 85:40
Moore, Barry DNF
Moore, Peter DNF
Morse, Josh 92:20
Olsen, Mark 89:18
Olsen, William 89:18
Phelps, Robin 86:41
Phelps, Val 86:41
Read, Dave 88:20
Rice, Steve 90:04
Roehrig, Mark 88:20
Ryan, Jim 83:08
Scharffenberg, Del 82:46
Shopland, Ian DNF
Simmons, Eric DNF
Smith, James DNF
Stroethoff, Karel DNF
Stum, Richard DNF
Swarts, Geoff 85:33
Tanner, Brad 81:51
White, Charles 83:55
Wolfe, Michael 81:51
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The last riders just arrived (7/2 2:20AM). Congratulations to all the 2008 Cascade participants. Thanks for coming to ride with us.
Mark Thomas
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Tom Knoblauch, Ole Mikkelson, Ken Bonner
Originally uploaded by Seattle Randonneur
Activity is starting to pick up here at the C1200 finish. Riders were treated to a cooler day and got most of the serious climbing out of the way early. It was windy through Lake Diablo, but there was plenty of shade most of the way in after Rockport.
Our data entry volunteers have caught up on their sleep and we expect they will keep the results up to date from here on in. More pictures from the finish are posted on Flickr, and we’ll be adding more as the night goes on.
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Spencer Frink and Mike McHale were involved in a 2- bicycle crash on Day 2 outside of Quincy. I’m going to include parts of the emails that we were exchanging with some of the volunteers involved with helping them.
To start with the latest news, Spencer had surgery today to stabilize a fractured pelvis he sustained in the crash. The surgeon said that the operation went well and the repair is tight. Hopefully that means that he can sit up at 90 degrees and be able to fly home within 4-5 days to begin a long course of recovery and physical therapy. Before surgery, they told Spencer that it would be at least 6-12 mo before he would be able to ride his bike outdoors but he may be able to ride a stationary bike within months.
Mike also had surgery today to pin a fractured clavicle. Mark spoke with him and he is in good spirits. He will also be out of action for a while.
[email from volunteer Tom Martin]
Mike said that they were riding in a group but not really a pace line. Spencer said that he needed to stop to check or fix his bike and yelled something to that effect several times before slowing. Mike said that he never heard any warnings from Spencer. It was rather windy and they were on a road (281?) with plenty of traffic noise. Spencer slowed and Mike clipped his wheel sending them both to the ground.
When the Quincy Control was notified by Mark Thomas of an accident with injuries outside of Quincy, both Mark Roehrig and I left to see if we could be of assistance. I got there just before the ambulance. Mike was ambulatory but Spencer was lying on his side, unable to roll onto his back without significant pain. Both were awake and talking fine. Shortly after the EMT’s arrived, both Marks arrived. We sent the riders who had stopped to help on their way to that Quincy control 10 miles away and we loaded the injured riders’ bikes onto our vehicles. Both riders were taken by the ambulance to the Quincy Emergency Clinic.
Mike had relatively minor injuries with a fractured clavicle and probable fractured rib(s) and bruised kidney. He wasn’t discharged until 4 AM. I stayed with him and drove him home to Seattle.
Spencer was less fortunate and sustained a fractured pelvis and moderately severe soft tissue injury of his shoulder. Spencer is being held in the ED at Harborview in Seattle until a bed becomes available in the hospital and is also awaiting surgery when time is available in the busy HMC OR. JoAnn came in last night to be with Spencer
They are hoping that one of the rider(s) who rode up in his car with him will be able to drive his car back to California with their gear and bikes.
We hope Mike and Spencer have a quick recovery and are back on their bikes soon
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