XC08 - Mile 3K

Sometime on our 93-mile Saturday ride from Hamburg to Canandaigua, we reached the 3,000 mile mark.  CrossRoads had some cheerleaders and signs about 24 miles into the ride: I calculated it to be about 78 miles into the ride.  I'll try to reconcile the figures after the tour.  In any event, it is amazing and satisfying to think that we have propelled ourselves so far and that we are now less than a week and 400 miles from our goal.  The day started cool and sunny with a tailwind on good roads, all ideal for cycling.  At mile 42, by pre-arrangement, I met my Adirondack mountaineering buddies, Bill Crowe and Paul Sheneman, who rode with me the last 51 rolling miles to the motel.  At the second SAG stop in Avon, other hiking friends - Shae Hanford and Bill Lindenfelser - came to see us.  Bill, Paul and I finished the ride before a thunderstorm rolled in from the west, but some of the other riders had to take shelter along the road and they and some others got wet.  My sisters, Julie and Mary, and Mary's husband Paul, picked me up at the motel to go to Mass at St. Mary's church in Canandaigua where the music was provided by an organist and soprano cantor.  Then the four of us met my sister, Liz and our mother for a very nice dinner near the shore of Canandaigua Lake.  The day marked some "lasts."  It was the last Saturday ride and the last scheduled 90+ mile ride of the tour.  But somehow I think we have not yet seen the las adventure.