Our journey

I'm completely exhausted from waking up too early (7:10 am) after going to bed at 1:10 am so that I could go ride bikes 60 miles with my teammates the following day (today). I was reassured by the team email that the pace would be talking pace with the purpose of meeting prospective members of next years team. Recently I've had some fit issues with my knees. Knee problems have been a plague to my athletic endeavors previously but most noticeably for cycling. My knee felt ok for yesterdays cyclocross race and so I figured an easy pace recovery ride would also be ok. Unfortunately after the first 30 miles they picked up the pace to quite a bit and I was forced from the pain in my knees to pull back and take it easy. Cycling is all about wind and using other people as wind-shields so not being around my team actually took more energy than if I was with them; about 30% more, it's quite significant. Today was not a particularly enjoyable day but the weather was outstanding! Slightly chilly this morning and no higher than 70 degrees throughout the day. Last night I spoke to a professional cyclist about getting a fit from him so that my position on the bike wouldn't cause me injuries in the future. Tomorrow I'm going to bring both my bikes to his house so that he can hopefully help rid me of these issues. He's been really helpful and he's eager to help out young guys progress in the sport which is really nice because this can be a very expensive sport with tight knit groups so having a hook-up on the inside is a great aid. 

My friend and I are hoping to make the long journey by bicycle from the East coast to the West coast while filming our adventure. My friend has his bachelors in cinematography and he's been trying to break into the movie-making scene with little monetary success. I thought that this idea might be great both as an experience for us to have together and to help him develop his own film in hopes of it helping him get noticed. I'm hoping that if this all comes together as we hope it will that we could get this potential film into a film festival and possibly shown around the country. We have to come up with some way for us to stand out from other people who have made this journey because it's definitely been done before. I would like to involve some sort of non-profit organization that maybe helps kids get on bikes or something similar. We also think it's important for us to not have any sort of agenda though, no cause like, cycling awareness, because it would take away from the headline which is the physical and mental journey. I completely support cycling awareness, better bike lanes, etc but it's also alienating to those who might be against it or not sure. This whole idea is just that, an idea, but with a little bit more discussion, brainstorming, etc it could definitely come to fruition.