We're getting all our paperwork ready to send in to
Guinness World Record Office. Wendy flew home to Atlanta, GA this
morning. We all miss her already. We have been busy since our
Record setting, so riding as taken a slight back seat. I will go for a ride
in a few hours with Eric and Rich from Zumwalt's. We leave at 7am, do
come and ride with us.
Thanks to
Richard and Eric from
Zumwalt's Bicycle Center
Visit them at:
6425 El Cajon Blvd
San Diego Ca. 92115
Message From Wendy...
Hi everyone,
Pete and I just
completed another adventure. I flew out to San Diego where Pete & I
broke the Guinness World Record for stationary bike riding. We surpassed
the previous record of 85 hours, and rode for 96 hours, 4 minutes, 8
seconds!
In 4 days, we slept a total of 4 hours,
2 minutes, and we were off the bike a total of 7 1/2 hours, where the
allotted time off was 8 hours (5 minutes each hour). The cool thing was
that we had a massage therapist/acupuncturist who worked on our aching
legs and back whenever we needed his help. And we had a caterer down the
street who brought us the best food three times a day! And he didn't
just bring food for me & Pete, he brought food to feed 15 to 20 people!
It was crazy!!! I'm working on an article of the event that will include
pictures that I'll send you when it's done.
Pete & I were on the KGTV ch10 and KUSI ch9 TV stations in San Diego, along with Mix 92.5,
a Canadian radio station (CJAD), KNX1070 news radio (Los Angeles), Yahoo News, UPI, and a
newspaper in Iowa, and still more articles are popping up as are the
radio interviews.
Here's a link with the story and some pics:
http://www.10news.com/news/11589718/detail.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070409/news_1m9cyclexol.html
http://www.bikeiowa.com/asp/hotnews/newsdisplay.asp?NewsID=2119
The below are Large files - Please right click and SAVE AS to your PC
http://peteandwendycycling.com/writings/10NewsPart1-127MB.mpg
http://peteandwendycycling.com/writings/10NewsPart2-175MB.mpg
or just open this link:
http://peteandwendycycling.com/writings
Since Pete's birthday was Sunday, I got
him a chocolate cake that was presented to him while we were riding our
final hour. Well, he decided to smear the chocolate on my face, and a
food fight erupted between both of us. So the pic on the front page of
the San Diego Tribune's "Our Region" section has us with chocolate all
over our face!
We ended our ride
strong, and could've kept going. But we stopped on 96:04:08 because of a
numbers game Pete figured out. We rode from 4-4 to 4-8, Pete's birthday
was 4-8 where he turned 48, Pete's been riding for 8 years, I've been
riding for 4 years, his first name has 4 letters, my last name has 8
letters, and we stopped at 96 hours because it is 48 twice. Weird stuff!
Pete & I used this event as a fundraiser for our charities (San Diego
Burn Institute, Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation) and for a training
ride for the Race Across America that we're doing in June. Attached is a
flyer for a $6,000 bike we're raffling off for $50 raffle tickets. Only
200 tickets will be sold. The drawing will be done by the owners of
Zumwalt's Bicycle Center in San Diego who are supplying us the bike.
We won't be officially recognized by Guinness World Records until after
they have received and reviewed all of our paperwork. Enjoy the article
and pics. I'm back in Atlanta now and glad to be off a spin bike!
WIN A $6,000 ROAD BIKE
Also, we're raffling a $6,000 Giant road bike. Tickets are $50 and only
200 will be sold. Please pass along this info to anyone you think is
interested, or is feeling lucky!
http://www.peteandwendycycling.com/BikeRaffle.htm
Proceeds will benefit the San Diego Burn Institute and help with our
expenses for the Race Across America, a 3,000-mile bicycle race we're
doing this June. (www.raceacrossamerica.org)
HEAR US ON THE RADIO!
We'll be on live at
www.kfdi.com with Dan Tooker on Monday, April 16 at 9:10 a.m.
(eastern)/6:10 a.m. (pacific).
Thank you for passing along our fundraising info.
Wendy
A million
Thank Yous:
Media - for helping Wendy and me get the word out about word about our Charities:
San Diego Burn Institute and Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation
Richard and Eric at
Zumwalt's Bicycle Center
Jack at
NiteRider
Russ at
Russ Denny
Bicycles
Jackie at
Peloton Sports,
We hope you have a fast recovery!
Jim at
Kenda
Jeff at
Polar
Brandon at
Medical
Center Acupuncture Clinic
Marty at
G R Catering Inc
Aide Alhambra CEO of
Strictlybizness
San Diego Track Club
www.sdtc.com -
We proudly thank your club for the use of the Race Clock. It's awesome
when we can cross sports to accomplish a goal together!
The use of your clock made it possible for
passer by and us to know how far we were into our trek.
Jimena Florit doing our Laundry and signing
autographs on our request-She does outstanding coaching. Wendy and I
have used allot of her tips, which have attributed to our successes!
Jay Patel at Howard Johnson Univ Inn - Thanks for opening up
the showers and all your help. Phone 619 286-2040
San Diego Police Department - your
officers made us feel safe all the time. Thanks for stopping by!
Chris Kostman from
AdventureCorps
He heard that we love to eat Kentucky Fried Chicken when we're on long
rides, so he and Liz brought us some! I was so GOOD! I felt bad,
because inside of me, I was thinking.... OK, please leave so we can devour
this chicken! We did hold off from eating and enjoyed their company.
Just so you know, Chris held the youngest RAAM finisher for almost 20 years
and was just broken! He is awesome! Liz is an endurance cyclist
and one to watch out for!
Mike Berry - is the new
Regional Brevet Administrators (RBAs)
in San Diego, CA see
www.sandiegocenturyriders.com. Thanks for the coffee in the wee hours!
All of you whom came by, called, honked and waved.
We've had many supporters stop
by including Jack Gresmer and Ed Andrews of NiteRider, Ernie of Hydralyte,
PK Ripper of Giant and former BMX World Champion, two time Olympian, Pan Am
Gold Winner and Several times National Mt Bike Champion
Jimena Florit, whom
now coaches (let us know if you'd like more info about her great coaching),
our close friends and you, the public!
Thank you all for coming by. We really appreciate the company.
Zumwalt's Bicycle Center
has helped beyond imagination with everything we need since we were confined
to our stationary bicycles for the over 96 hours.
G R Catering provided
us with three delicious and nutritional meals each day. And we have Brandon Drouillard
and Debra Kuhn of
Medical
Center Acupuncture Clinic to help us with our pain management. Jay
From Howard Johnson Univ Inn across the street helped us so much by
providing showers. He had the door wide open and the shower going to
help in our speedy 10 minute shower. Man did that shower feel great!
San Diego Police Dept whom
came by and gave us speeding warnings as we were riding too fast (just
kidding); the San Diego Police Dept kept us feeling safe at all times.
We really felt SAFE!
We also want to mention Memo, Kevin
(and his great crazy friends), Marie, Jason, Azalea (we called her Flower),
Larry, Carrie, Brandy, Ron Houser, Kat, Mike, Pete, Ron, Ingo (and his great
neighbor Nelson, for bring the party to us!), Susie, Sean Murphy and their
kids, Marie's parents, Eric's family and
Rich's family (the brownies were killer!), the Hell Bound cycling club, San
Diego Century Riders and Adventure Corps. Everyone who brought us
coffee thanks so much. I know I left allot of you out, I'm truly
sorry. Do please help us remember as it's all blurry! So let us know.
Again, Thank you all. Pete And Wendy
April 3rd
We were interviewed by Jagger and Kristi of Magic 92.5 Tuesday
Morning.
Here's the clip:
04.03.07PeteandWendyCycling.mp3. Union Tribune had an article in
the paper yesterday.
April 4th - 8 a.m.
We started our Guinness World Record Attempt. Channel 10 News
interviewed us and ran the segment on the 5 p. .m news.
We've had many supporters stop
by including Jack Gresmer and Ed Andrews of NiteRider, Ernie of Hydralyte,
PK Ripper of Giant and former BMX World Champion, two time Olympian, Pan Am
Gold Winner and Several times National Mt Bike Champion
Jimena Florit, our
close friends and you, the public!
Thank you all for coming by. We really appreciate the company. Zumwalt's
has helped beyond imagination with everything we need since we're confined
to our stationary bicycles for the next 96 hours.
G R Catering has provided
us with three delicious and nutritional meals each day. And we have Brandon
Drouillard and Debra Kuhn of
Medical
Center Acupuncture Clinic to help us with our pain management with
their great hands!
At
11:05 p.m.
We received a call from www.cjad.com News Talk Radio and did about a 20-minute phone
interview with Peter Holder. The Audio Interview can be heard at
Masiel
Interview.mp3.
April
5th - 2 a.m.
We are at hour number 18.
It's Thursday morning, and although Wendy and I are tired, we have
managed to stay on the bike the whole time, except for about 14 minutes. We
are allowed 5 minutes each hour, which may be accumulated, for
restroom breaks and sleep. We have saved about 1 hour, 15 minutes. We will continue to pedal on!
April
5th
Thursday
We ate a great Breakfast, Lunch and
Dinner, thanks
G R Catering Inc. We had a ton of visitors
At
11:35 p.m.
We received a call from www.cjad.com News Talk Radio and
Wendy did a phone
interview with Peter Holder. The Audio Interview ca be heard at
Gardiner
Interview.mp3.
We took our breaks. Wendy slept first for two hours, and
about an hour later Pete slept for two hours. While I was asleep, Wendy was
talking with the police Sgt. Darrell McPherren.
April
6th - 2am
A few days ago during a phone interview
Wendy and Pete were referred as "HEROES"; We want to be clear, that the true
heroes are the burn victims that continue to go forward everyday! We
really hope that the Burn Institute and Burn Foundation both are receiving
donations. Lets help send the kids to Burn Camp! ~ Pete Masiel
Till our next update-
Pete and Wendy
