What I'm Carrying

This post is all about what I'll have with me on a typical day as I ride.  Real quickly though, it looks like the first 8 days will be much lighter than originally planned.  This is so because Lindsey will be along, taking nice vacation and driving some 1200 miles while keeping tabs on your truly.  This helps me, not only for the moral support and such, but also for the fact that I can keep all my stuff in her car, rather than tow it along with me.  Oh, it also means I may not have to spend every night in a tent, perhaps a hotel a few of those nights may be in order.  Sweet.

I will have a couple water bottles on the bike, and a light backpack with some food, tubes and other basic bike needs with me for this stretch, but besides that I will be as light as I can be.  I would just keep everything with Lindsey, but I have no intentions or expectations of her just tailing me the entire time, that would be so boring.  So, as long as she can get to me within an hour, we'll be good to go.

But when she leaves, it's all on me.  And I will have my second tallest peak climb right at that point as well, at about 11,550 feet (can someone lend me an oxygen mask?  Actually, being kind of serious on this one).  So when all is hooked up, all is packed up, and I am riding along, here is what I will have:

Attached to my Cervelo S2 bike will be:

Handlebar Bag 

All maps

Electrolyte tablets

Bike tools

Wallet

ID and Money

Smaller extra batteries

Earphones and Bluetooth

Flip Video Camera

Digital Camera

Action Camera

Lighting + Other Bike Attachments

Flashing lights on front and rear

Bright light on front

Helmet light

4-5 lights on bike trailer

1 large water bottle (1 leter)

1 small water bottle (1/2 leter)

Bento Box (phone, iPod, inspirational picture)

Bike pump

Sattlebag

2 CO2 cartridges

1 tube

Extra tools

2-4 smaller meal bars

Osprey Backpack

Water bladder (2 leters)

6-10 packages of food (cliff roks, PaleoKits etc.)

Extra maps

Gloves

Hat

Extra shirt

Extra socks

Water filter

Sunglasses

Sunscreen

Bug repellant

Bandana

Knife

Flash light

Video Camera

BOB Bike Trailer

Tent

Sleeping bag

Towel

Toilettres kit

Camping Stove

Extra flame

Extra spark

Utensils

Tupperware

2 Gallon water jugs

6-10 MRE's (dehydrated meals)

4 cans Tuna

PaleoTreats

PaleoKits

Dried fruit

Raw Veggies

Bread

Oatmeal

Electrolyte powder

Protein powder

Extra food

Laptop computer

Extra batteries

All chords

4 tubes

CO2 cartridges

Extra tools

Bike locks

Extra Clothes (in the trailer)

2 long sleeve shirts

Bike jersey

Bike shorts

2 tights

Cold pants

1 booties (shoe covers)

1 helmet cover

4 socks

4 underwear

1 jacket

1 rain jacket

2 gloves

Face warmer

Goggles

2 shirts

1 shorts

1 pants

1 shoes

1 VFF's

So that's my list.  I am sure this will be changing practically every day, but this is what I have in terms of right now.  I'll have to weigh this before I head out, but I don't think I'll want to lose too much from this list, especially when I'm alone riding though Kansas (80+ miles of nothing, like, no houses, gas stations, rest stops...nothing).  Yeah, and I am open to suggestions here as well.

In one week I will be participating in the CrossFit Sectionals for my region, then, it's an early plane ride out to San Francisco.  I'll post even more details tomorrow!

Always dedicated to the journey,

Josh Courage