The RAC | A Typical Day
by
Christiane Staninger
We wake up at 6a.m.
We get ourselves ready.
We check our bikes for flats.
Please keep the restrooms clean.
Volunteers have to clean up if you don’t.
We might not get invited back if we leave a mess.
We take down our tents, pack up our stuff, and take it to the truck.
We fill up our water bottle at the water source (hose)
We fill up our Gatorade bottle at the luggage truck.
Chase and Youth Support meet with Sabine at 7:30 a.m. at the truck.
We have breakfast.
We leave camp at 8 a.m.
We typically have a snack stop, a lunch stop, and - on long days- another snack
stop.
Sometimes we regroup, and sometimes we don’t.
Chase cars stop along the route every few miles or so; they carry water,
Gatorade, basic first aid supplies, and a bike pump.
After we reach camp, we retrieve our luggage from the truck and set up your
tent.
If our bike has issues, we alert Bob right away (and not at 7:55 am the next
morning).
We
help other people set up their tents
help unload the Penske
or cheer on those riders who are coming in after us. It’s great fun.
Dinner is around 6 pm unless otherwise posted. We receive wristbands.
We go to the meeting at 8pm.
We stay for Dennis’ “Ghost Stories by the Campfire.”
We go to bed because we are tired.