Real Geeks Ride » pgh http://www.realgeeksride.com 2 Geeks biking across the USA to make a point Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:48:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Day 10: 2:27pm, Blackholes, Candy Bars http://www.realgeeksride.com/2009/06/01/day-10-227pm-blackholes-candy-bars/ http://www.realgeeksride.com/2009/06/01/day-10-227pm-blackholes-candy-bars/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:33:27 +0000 carlos http://www.realgeeksride.com/?p=580 With a few hours of sleeping in Brian’s garage, we headed 65 miles in the early morning to Pittsburgh.  We finished off the Great Alleghany Trail and had about 9 miles into Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, with over 700 bridges and the original urban planner hopped up on something, getting into Pittsburgh was an ordeal. The trail getting in was closed so we picked a bridge and somehow made it in.

Pittsburgh is a black hole with candy bars in the middle.

We arrived at 2:27pm. Screaming “BooYa!” at the top of our lungs would not do that arrival justice. The candy bars represent the people that somehow were sucked into the city. I felt like I was in Austin, TX again. People had the same unique quality that only certain towns have.

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A special thanks to:

Lindsay Patross from IHeartPGH.com for asking us to switch our route in the early stages to come through Pittsburgh.
Scott Bricker from Bike-PGH.org for being our host on short notice and helping us around the town. The work this man and his team do is pure quality.
Jonathan Kersting from Pittsburgh Technology Council for lending a hand with meeting location.

Stats
Miles today: 64.71
Total miles: 503.21
Flats today: Carlos – 0, Joe – 1
Total flats: Carlos – 3, Joe – 1
Crashes: Carlos – 0, Joe – 0
Minutes until Carlos being sad: 3

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