H2V Update: D-Day
Well the team is finally on the road. After days of waiting and months of preparation we have left Halifax to begin the assault on the guinness record and raise awareness for Juvenile Diabetes.
Leaving halifax could be one of the greatest riding days of the teams lives.
We got up early and that is even after most of the volunteers has spent the enitre night loading the food and supplies plus making sure the Winnebagos, our home for the next 9 days, were outfitted perfectly.
Arriving in Point Pleasant Park where we were to dip our tires and depart we were more than a little stunned to see a stage and the Premier of the Nova Scotia ready to send us off with great fanfare. it was a brilliant start to the journey and we even had a bagp[iper playing traditional music as we dipped and left. Our MC was the radio host who the previous day had interviewed on air at Rock 104 and then the mayor's assistant officially declared September 14th Team H2V day. It was amazing and the day has been glorious.
We left the city to one of the coolest things I have ever doine on a bike. Teams of riders road with us through city centre with a full police escort. Now I'm no Tour de Frnace rider but I'm sure those guys like the fact that cars are stopped at any and all intersections including the highway so a bun ch of cyclist can go through. It was awesome.
Discovery Channel followed our progress and we were alll interviewed so hopefully after this little ordeal there will be some legacy of the ride left behind via interviews and media so we can keep a long term goal of rasiing money continuouisly alive. We are definitley paast $800,000 and money seems to be coming in fast and furiously. Millions is the goal and the cure will come in time.
Each rider has almost done a full shift and so far we are right on schedule. Everyone puttiing in about 100km in their 3 hr shift. Now the tough part will surely come as within 12 hours we are right back on the bikes.
Nova Scotia is in the rear view mirror and we are a serious way through New Brunswick. So far so good.
Talk to you all tomorrow and check it all out at www.teamh2v.com.
Willie Cromack
Team H2V
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| Mayor's Assistant announcing Team H2V Day |
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| The team dipping their tires in the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Riding out of Halifax with the peleton with a full police escort |
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| Discovery Channel filmer with Willie in the mechanic's Bago |
