Description: The Adventures of a Cyclist Who Carries Too Much Stuff
My blog has been inactive for a while. When I started CaptainOverpacker.com as a randonneuring-centric site in 2012, I decided to write only about RUSA permanents and populaires. Later, I included other rides that were long enough to have been at least a populaire (100 km or 62 miles) … rides such as BikeMS and the Tour de Cure. That was the format I used for a few years. After an injury during a 600-km brevet attempt, I was relegated to shorter rides that didn’t “qualify” for entry in my blog. Later, I dev
This year’s Bike MS event was renamed and moved to a new location, with Day 1 beginning in Smithfield, VA and riding 75 miles to Williamsburg, including a ferry ride between Surry and Jamestown. Day 2 was in the opposite direction. As usual, 40-mile and 100-mile options were also available. Our event was organized to run concurrently with a sister event that ran between Richmond and Williamsburg. So the Colonial Crossroads Bike MS event was actually two rides that converged in Williamsburg for a combined ev
I recently served as a SAG driver in support of our local bicycling organization’s Surry Century . I started supporting (rather than riding) the club’s two annual events a few years ago. Later, I took possession of the club’s 14 water coolers. I had a 4×6′ utility trailer, so moving them was a cinch. My event routine had become to deliver the coolers to prescribed locations, uncouple the trailer, mount my bicycle carrier (hitch-mounted) and then drive my SAG routes, restocking water along the way. I’d rever