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Mayors' Ride Bios - Peter Borgen
1. Which Relay link do you want to ride?
St. Paul, MN to Des Moines, IA
2. How you found us
I heard about it via e-mail from my friend, inspiration incarnate,
Dynamism Herself, Denise Hill, with whom you are obviously familiar
since she's completed the first two legs of the ride.
3. Why you want to do this ride
I'm very interested in doing it because I grew up in Des Moines and
then settled in St. Paul after going to college here. I've done the
trip between the two by plane, bus, and car or truck more times than
I can count. It would make me very happy to be able to add two
wheeled, human powered to that list.
4. Your touring experience
My touring experience would fit on the head of a pin without
displacing any angels.
Don\'t know mileage even vaguely, but I ride trails in and around the
Twin Cities and ride to work when I can.
5. Tell us about your bike
REI/Novarra Bonanza- low end, sturdy reliable mountain bike.
Currently wearing knobby tires, but I'm getting others for the road.
6. Describe your training regimen
Riding to work whenever I\'m able; riding around town with overloaded
paniers seeking out the meanest hills available. (For those who know
St. Paul, the High Bridge and Ramsey Hill are both absolutely as evil
as they look.) I also roller blade, run, kick hackey sack, play
frisbee, lift weights, and play other games/sports as the spirit
moves me or as opportunity arises. All of these things I blend into
a training regimen of a shockingly variable consistency, but it seems
to work.
7. How many miles do you ride a year?
8. Are you car free or Interested
9. How are you making time for this
Vacation
10. How many miles do you plan to ride in 2002
11. What are your fears about doing this ride
*Drunken and/or clueless people in SUVs or other large vehicles
adding me to the collection of bugs on their grill.
*Killer tornado picking me up and depositing me in the top of a
tree,Purgatory or Kansas.
*Unrepairable breakdown in the middle of nowhere and out of cellular
service adding marathon walk to longest day of riding.
12. Do you have any special skills
*If riding a bike in the middle of nowhere isn't enough to get
people's attention, I can play hackey sack and devil sticks to draw
gawkers, and then we can talk about the trip and its noble cause.
*As a perfectly average photographer with a mediocre camera, I could
add pictures to the trip documentation.
*I speak Spanish, but I'm not sure that will be of any particular
help on this leg of the trip.
*As a reference librarian, I can look up arcane information wherever
we stop. Isn't that what every trip needs?
13. Do you have any helpful friends for us
None that I can think of offhand.
14. Affiliated bike club eMails
15. If you are involved with other non-profit organizations, please tell
us about them:
PersonalTelco.net - building community wireless internet networks for
public benefit.
16. What other activities do you do?
17. Your age
33
18. Your occupation
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