3 days and counting...

Friday morning at 6:00 AM (!) I leave on my ride to Vancouver, BC. I'll ride about 109 miles on Friday (105 plus 4 miles to my hotel), and then another 82 on Saturday. That will total somewhere around 190 miles total, assuming I don't get lost.

I feel reasonable confident about completing in two days, though I'm unsure how I'm going to feel the second day, as the most that I've done in two days is a 50/70 that I did back in June. I did an “out and back” on the first 35 miles of the route on Saturday (Bellevue to Lake Stevens and back), and though I did it reasonably quickly, it was not a pleasant ride. I'm in the “tapering down” phase - a short ride on Monday, and then a really short ride (~10 miles) on Wednesday night just to loosen my legs up.