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Journal/Ray Lightner
Bicyclists stopped at the Days Inn in Perry on the third to last lay of a 26-day, 2,920-mile
transcontinental bike ride from San Diego to Tybee Island organized by PAC Tours.
PAC Toup stops in Perry on
transcontinental bike ride
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Fifty bicyclists rode
through Perry Tuesday and
Wednesday as part of 26-
day ride from San Diego to
Tybee Island.
The 50 riders, 40 men and
10 women, are from across
the country and the world,
from New York to Omaha,
from Australia to England.
On Tuesday they rode 104
miles from Eufaula to Perry.
Wednesday they were sched
uled to ride 114 miles from
Perry to Metter and the
final leg of the tour is 86
miles from Metter to Tybee
Island.
The riders paid $3,295
to participate in the 2,920-
mile ride. The cost included
hotels, meals, gear trans
port, tech support and a 10-
member support staff said
PAC Tours organizer Lon
Ilaldeman.
The ride is one of three
transcontinental rides a year
organized by PAC Tours
created about 20 years ago
by Haldeman and his wife
Susan Notorangelo. “I start
ed when I was 25 and I
was one of the youngsters in
the group,” Haldeman said.
“Now 48, I’m still one of the
youngsters. The average age
of the riders is 50.”
There’s a 98 percent suc
cess rate, Haldeman said.
“It’s not an easy trip. We
had one rider who had to
drop out. These people had
to train about 10,000 miles
to be in shape for this. If
they hadn’t done 5,000 miles
last year, they’re not going
to be ready for this year.”
Why do the riders do it?
Simone Besthall of New
York said the ride is “very
intense and physically
demanding. It ain’t easy.”
Besthall said on the ride
you find out what a wonder
ful world this is.
“It’s much more intimate
on a bike than in car. You
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77ie final three days of ride took riders from Eufaula to
Perry to Metier and ended at Tybee Island.
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Donna Allen of Omaha,
Neb., teaches online health
promotion at Nebraska
Methodist College. She said
she’s doing this for two rea
sons.
Allen is riding for her
friend Fern Carness, who is
living with cancer. “I’m rid
ing for the American Breast
Cancer Foundation. I call
it the Pink Pedals Tour, I
painted the pedals of my
bike pink,” said Allen, who
is also wearing pink shoes.
Allen is also spreading
the world about early can
cer detection, as October is
Breast Cancer Awareness
month. She said the American
Breast Cancer Foundation
not only provides informa
tion on how to detect cancer
and offers cancer screenings,
but the foundation also pro
vides funding to those who
cannot afford testing. To get
information, Allen said, visit
www.abcf.org.
The second reason she’s
riding - “because I’m a good
mom,” said Allen, the moth
er of three children, ages 7,9
and 11. “My kids’ school is
following me on the ride. I’m
sending pictures everyday.
It’s a cool way for the stu
dents to learn about geog
raphy.”
Haldeman has organized
75 rides so far, from Canada
to Mexico, Pensacola to
Maine, Seattle to Savannah.
“Each one is different,”
he said.
“We zigzag all over. The
routes are worked out well.
I try to go to points of inter
est, but sometimes you have
to get from point to point.
Five percent of the route is
good.”
He researches the routes
duringthe winter. Sometimes
what used to be a narrow
two-lane road becomes a
busy because a new business
opens up. Sometimes what
was a busy road has no traf
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