GAP Pre-departure thoughts

Not long ago I had so much lower back pain I could barely get out of bed and crawl to the bathroom. That was with less than 10 days to go to departure day for joining Jim's trip to bike the GAP, the Great Allegjeny Passage. This is through Pennsylvania and Maryland along the old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad that was built to connect Industrial Pittsburgh to the coast. It is possible to join the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal trail at Cumberlandand get all the way to Washington DC, or vice versa. But the plan is to bike only the GAP, Pittsburgh - Cumberland - Pittsburgh, a distance of about 270 miles. 

Jim has been planning this trip for months and has all the accommodation booked so, with only two of us going I really don't want to let him down. I have to admit that I have never tried as long a bike trip as this so, although I am excited about the opportunity to do it, I am a little anxious. 

A week of intense chiropractic treatment from the good Dr Vincent Buonnano of Greenwich, Ct has got me to the point of being able to stand up and walk again. So the game is on, the trip will go ahead as planned and I just hope I will be able to complete it. 

Tony.