This site was built to serve many purposes and each day you click on will give you three choices...

JOURNAL
A place for me to share my impressions of this incredible journey.

ROUTE
A tool by which those of you who are thinking of those of us on the ride can follow our progress.

PHOTOS
A photojournal of the day.

Also, please keep in mind, I was at the mercy of a very shaky cellular modem and and a portable that blew up on the ride so I've had to do the site in hindsight, which in hindsight, was probably the better way to go.

- jason

Since I didn't do a page for the time I spent training and raising money (which would have actually been useful) allow me a moment to thank some folk here:

1. EVERYBODY WHO PLEDGED!!!
I raised over $4,000 and money is still coming in!! You all rock!

2. Eolas Technologies for giving me time off to do this and for not making fun of me in my bike gear.

3. Lincoln Park Athletic Club's awesome staff (especially the spin instructors) for putting up with my inane and incessant queries!

4. The Nubile Thangs! 'cause, well, they rock (if I die on this ride, Lindsay gets the CD's, Bootie gets the TV, Oscar gets the DVD's and The Eudy's get everything else!)

Ed.: I didn't die, so, sorry guys, I'm keeping my stuff!

5. Team Plaza Del Lago, who helped me learn the difference between riding and striving.

6. The SAG/AFTRA Strike Committee, of which I am a PROUD member! Fight hard, fight long. Each spin of my pedals was a spin in solidarity...AS LONG AS IT TAKES!!!

7. Dr. Norman Scott, N.Y.Knicks Team Physician, for seeing me at a moment's notice and assuring me that while I may be an idiot, my knee would make it through this ordeal.

...and to my family and all my friends who never let me feel as depressed as I actually was while training for and riding on this thing!

I love you all!!

To say this has been a daunting task is to put it a bit mildly. I got up at 6am on Saturday's and Sunday's and rode in the wind and rain. I missed a LOT of fun weekend nights. There was (and is) the neverending knee pain, the MRI, the flat tires, the colds, the blisters and the shin splints.

And then there's the expense. Between spending dough on getting the right stuff, the right bike, hell, spending dough on raising dough...it was tough.

But I did it!

But there was one really good thing...

I ate a LOT of bagels!
(it's a rough job...I know)