Last day of the ride

The last day of the ride was really special. At breakfast Jack Burger surprised us all and met up with us to ride the last day. Jack is my best friends uncle who rode the QMDC ride last year and was the main reason that I got involved with CAF and helped me out with getting my bike from CAF. It was really cool that I got to ride with Jack the last day and made the final ride even more special. The ride itself was fairly short, only 72 miles with rolling hills the entire way. We were scheduled to ride through Camp Pendleton, a military base, but we found out the night before that there was construction going on in Camp Pendleton so we had to divert our route to riding down the I-5 for 8 miles! As we entered the freeway, we were immediately met with a street sweeper that was cleaning the shoulder of the freeway so we were forced enter the slow lane of the freeway to go around the street sweeper! Pretty crazy. The highlight of the ride was the finish, which was an organized so that the challenged athletes that completed the ride rode in last as we were greeted by the rest of the QMDC riders, family and several other challenged athletes. It was the perfect finish to an amazing ride. It was a bitter sweet moment because we had finally finished, but at the same time it was all over.

To celebrate my dad, my girlfriend, cameron, his parents, Jack Burger and his family and Andy went out to dinner at a nice mexican restaurant. I met a lot of wonderful people on the QMDC ride that have the ability to open many more doors for skiing, triathlon and future QMDC rides. Thanks to everyone that donated and made the QMDC a dream come true for me.