2013 Baltimore to Portland

2013 marks our 12th year of cycling across the America in the fight against cancer and the third year of our Baltimore to Portland ride. This 70 day, 4400 mile ride follows parts of the traditional leg one route of our previous 10 4K rides: after leaving Baltimore’s Inner Harbor we head north to southern Pennsylvania where we strike west through Ohio. The ride continues through Indiana and curls up to Chicago, IL where the riders meet with the Seattle ride.  From the Windy City riders travel through Iowa, and Nebraska before landing in Boulder, CO where we meet up with our San Francisco ride for the 4th of July. From Boulder, the route takes a distinctive northern turn into Wyoming’s Teton National Park. We then continue west again through Idaho and into Oregon.

Route highlights include cycling to the Great Lakes, Tetons, Yellowstone National Park, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Painted Hills of Oregon, Willamette Valley, and Cannon Beach.

The Portland ride will finish August 10th around noon at Pioner Square in Portland Oregon.  The address is 701 SW 6th Avenue, Portland, OR 97204.

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Mail Drops

June 10th
The Gray Family
Attn: Rider’s Name Here
23500 Quail Hollow Drive
Westlake, Ohio 44145
June 20th
First Baptist Chruch
Attn: Rider’s Name
1401 West Porter Avenue
Chesterton, IN 46304
June 24th
Mrs. Carol Sommers
c/o Riders name
2411 E 58th Ct
Davenport, IA 52807
July 4th
First United Methodist Church
P.O. Box 618
c/o riders name
Arapahoe, NE 68922
July 9th or 10th
The Scanu Family
Attn: Rider’s Name
5984 El Diente St
Golden, CO 80403

Most Recent Posts


Written by Christopher Mayer-Bacon

Day 1-Baltimore to Waynesboro, PA-How am I still awake?

June 4, 2013

Dedicated to Rod Hess This may get posted a day or two later than intended-mobile internet and WiFi is fairly ...
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Tapering

June 3, 2013

Training is over now. I've been tapering for the past two weeks, cutting my lifting from 5 to 3 days a week a...
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Last day at home

June 3, 2013

For my last day at home until August, it was remarkably anticlimactic.  Aside from some errands and touch-up...
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Money off my mind

May 24, 2013

Finally, I'm able to come up for air. After finishing up my schoolwork and submitting a first draft of my proj...
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Publish or perish

February 13, 2013

Funds raised: $1,710 (~10 miles outside of Des Moines, IA) Training miles: 505.93 It's been a while since the ...
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Bike trainers, Misfits, and my first $1,000

December 27, 2012

12/26/2012 The following is the link to the Google Map for the first leg of the ride.  Google only allows 25 ...
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What to do with what’s left of the year

December 20, 2012

12/18/2012 Training mileage to date: 141.34 Finals put a hold on my fundraising last week.  I finished my las...
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Dollars to miles

December 20, 2012

12/8/12 Training mileage today: 47.12 (94.34 total) Many thanks to this week's donors (Jack, Gary, Tom, Patty ...
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Getting started

December 3, 2012

Wow, I was not expecting to write this ~72 hours after my phone interview.  I got the news yesterday at schoo...
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Waiting game

December 3, 2012

Training mileage today : 47.22 miles (47.22 total) I'd like to thank my first donors (Bryan and Melissa, and a...
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October 30, 2012

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