The Portland Bridge Pedal

Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -800

Sunday, 6:15AM: I get up, shove some cookies down my gullet, grab my bicycle
and go roaring off to catch the 6:30 MAX towards downtown. Why? This day was
the annual Portland Bridge Pedal! I chose the hardest of the three courses--
thirty-eight miles and ten bridges. Hey, if I can hike the Timberline Trail
and run a 5K in the same week, I can surely add mad cycling to the list! The
registration line downtown was enormous and the crowd numbered more than twenty
thousand! I left my camera at home, but Eliza has posted a
photolog of her ride
(the abridged version of my ride).