It’s Official

So my boss approved my vacation request today for the entire month of June 2010.  That’s pretty huge…I was somewhat worried that she would express concerns about me being gone that long, since it will put a great strain on the guys who will take on my workload while I’m out.  I feel really, really sorry for those guys, lol.

But my quest has gained a degree of officiality now.  This business of romping through the mountains on my bike is over a year away, and has maintained quite a surreal, dreamy feel up to now.   Seeing my boss’s approval made me sort of stop and think, “Whoa…it’s for real.  I’m really going to do it.” 

Said my boss’s second hand man:  “How many miles is that?”

“2781 miles with 200,000 total feet of climbing!” I answered, suddenly feeling humbled all over again.

“You realize,” he said, “that that’s like 100 miles a day.  I wouldn’t even do that on my motorcycle.”

I didn’t want to tell him that my goal was to get a lot more than that per day…he was already thinking that I was a wee bit touched in the head.  The truth is, however, that you probably do need to unscrew your brain a little bit to want to attempt this race…you may even need to lose a few of those screws.  But hell, chances are you don’t need ALL of them anyway.

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