Ride date Tuesday 5-19-2009
We started the morning with a buss ride from Georgetown Delaware to the outskirts of Washington DC. We started the morning with a 10 mile ride escorted by the Maryland State Police into DC and the Capitol. We had a stop for a ceremony at the crash site of Trooper 2, a Maryland State Police helicopter that went down in September of last year in a park in bad weather while attempting to take two accident victims to the hospital. All three crew members and one of the patients perished in the wreck. After arriving at the capitol, we had lunch on the lawn. Part of the group went to meet with representatives about getting line of duty deaths for EMS workers. A bill was introduced that day to the house of legislators. There were over 20 meetings and the day was a huge success from that standpoint. After lunch we took a subway to the west outskirts and continued our ride. We were pulled off the course after 20 miles and taken to the hotel by the organizers due to unsafe roads and course marking errors. This was a pretty big disappointment but everyone made it in safely. Fortunately, David and I had put in 40 miles in NYC the day before the ride started, and that's about what we did not get to ride that day. So our total mileage will not be lacking from what we expected to do. We ended up on a buss to Woodstock Virginia and our hotel.
For an awesome tribute video for Trooper 2, click this link.
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