MS150: Sunay September 7th, 2008- Day Two

WAY TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EARLY IF YOU ASK ME....
We were up at 5:31 as the alarm went off. Man I could have slept for another 10 hours! We met our ride to the top of the mountain for breakfast at 6:00am. I hurried to get my plate and sit down to eat. They had a nice selection, scrambled eggs, bacon, home fries, biscuits and gravy,pancakes, oj, milk, coffee, tea and water! I enjoyed my eggs taters and biscuit with apple jelly. I get seconds of everything including OJ. Dad went to take sunrise pictures... I was too tired to care about that.






After breakfast we went outside to all get pictures with the early morning scenery. Then we went and waited for the but to come get us at 7:00am to take us back to Marlinton to our bikes.




Here is a picture from on the way down snowshoe mountain. The fog wasn't too bad this morning like it had been yesterday evening. You couldn't see anything from atop the mountain the night before. The bus got us to Marlinton a pinch before 8:00am and we were all geared up and pedaling by 8:05am.

Here is a picture from near the first rest stop of the Greenbier River.


It didn't take long on day two for my left knee to hurt but OF COURSE we kept going so I tried to focus my energy and thoughts away from my knee hurting. Near the second rest stop dad spotted a country church WAAAY in the distance.



That's right you can BARELY see it so I taught dad how to use the ZOOM... Thus the car picture me teaching him to zoom at the second rest stop. So he turned back and got the picture much better now that he learned how to zoom!


This was the big miles between rest stops... so we had many "self taken breaks" in between because sure we are riding for a cause but we also need to have fun and relax a little. Not to mention I used my vacation time to do this so shucks I wanted it to be worth while! Here are several shots of scenery along the trail and just us biking. Nothing spectacular, yet sweet memories dad and I have captured!






And here are some LOW quality videos of not much...




Then of course came the super dark Droop Tunnel again!



Many spots all along the trails were cement "monuments" almost that had "W" on them so being Dad is a Wriston we had to get him and the W!





Then of course came our swimming whole again! The lovely swinging rope into the river. Dad decided although still kinda cool to go ahead and go for it ALLLL the way in this time. And so that is what he did. And because he wanted to be sure you all knew he was having fun notices as he falls in time two he is waving to you!

Right beyond that is a swinging bridge. It was a real nice looking high quality bridge. It reminded me of the fun ole days at Great Papa's using his swinging bridge many of times! Unfortunately this bridge was private property and was posted no trespassing and had a "security" sign on it so we figured we best not mess with it--- even though we REALLY did want to!





Now we WERE NEARING OUR LAST 20 MILES--- thank goodness!!!!!!!!!! Dad had stayed back at rest stop mile 25 longer than I did. Then apparently he remembered we wanted my picture with my mile marker since we were bummed we has missed his milemarker. Well dad didn't catch up quick enough so this is my self portrait; Age 23 and mile marker 23!


We Saw a fellow biker stopped. Dad was hopeful it was a snake, but it wasn't. The fellow bike had been watching a Doe and her fawn for about five minutes. I tried to get a quick picture but it didn't quite turn out as nice as we had hoped!

We started passing the houses on stilts again and we wanted to let you know we had "great accomodations" when we saw this older model double wide trailer WAY up high on stilts... maybe you had to be there but it gave us a GREAT chuckle!



As we neared the 15 mile marker we knew we had to get some swim time in... and so we did!






And because we wanted proof that we've been there done that... Here we are on the Greenbier River Trail in West Virginia!




Well I missed one other photo we wanted. We wanted out picture at Anthony but 1. I forgot as I wanted to be done and never really Stopped at that rest stop and 2. Dad said there was no Anthony sign. So that being said I kept biking and dad caught up around mile marker 13. I wanted to be done by now and was hurting just about EVERYwhere! So My idea was just to HURRY! So We "speed" rode pretty well the last 8 miles of trail! We got a 5:20 minute with me stopping to tie my shoe and a 5:08 minute going straight not te mention since we were nearing the end of the trail there were numerous people we had to slow down for and watch out for. We finally made it. We could either wait for a ride or ride another 4-5 miles to the college. We were told it was a GIANT MOUNTAIN but being we waited OVER an hour Sat for a ride to our hotel we figured we'd tough it out that we'd prob get there by the time a ride got us there... hmmm was that a good or bad decision? Well Route 60 going into Lewisburg IS a MOUNTAIN! He did it though! I couldn't bike it all, dad could. And so he biked and he biked and he biked and he made it to the top.... only to see a second mountain. He ran back to where I was and he pushed me as I pedaled HAHAHAHHA until he got me to the top of mountain two then again we did the same for mountain two. He rode ahead, got me to the top and caught back up.
It's hard to see the prospective but this is the mountain in Zoom and the second is without zoom... dad is a barely visible dot.


Well we made it back into town- exhausted! As we turned into the college an air horn- or whatever it's called blew it's siren and the volunteers cheered! It was cute. We were awarded an MS 150 Patch and a MS150 Medal. WE FINISHED!!


We had hamburgers and hotdogs awaiting us. I was less than interested in that so just enjoyed way too much sweet tea! I paid $60 for dad and my registration this year so we were offered a killer of a deal! $9 for both of us for MS150 2009! I grabbed it up!! So September 11-13 We will be torturing ourselves again to get a world free of MS!
We got our luggage and bikes and left for Lynchburg at 4:14. I think we were home about 7:00pm.