9th in a series originally posted on my Ride to Conquer Cancer personal page:

Cycle blog entry #9, May 4, 2009
A few days ago the ride organizers issued the Ride Guide. It's a booklet with more details about the upcoming event.

On June 20th we're going to begin our journey at 7:00 a.m. at Guildford Mall in Surrey. After the official opening ceremonies I'm guessing we'll travel along 152nd Avenue to South Surrey and then South along King George Highway to the border.

At this point only the start, middle and end destinations have been disclosed. All we really know about points in between is that we won't be riding on Route #1 or I-5. It'll all be secondary roads.

The end of Day 1 will find us relaxing/ recuperating at a campsite (or maybe a farmer's field?) in Mount Vernon. I scaled the distance in my handy-dandy atlas and calculated the distance to be about 110 km.

The finish line for this year's Ride to Conquer Cancer will be at the campus of the University of Washington. And as much as I'm sure participants will already be looking forward to next year's event, it would be nice to be able to say that it was the finish line for Cancer. The end of that race is coming, and all the support from your donations is speeding us along to that conclusion at an ever-increasing rate.

Thank you very much for supporting event participants and especially researchers, doctors and cancer patients.