Day 1 was the "warm up" day with a leisurely 49 miles from Old Town Alexandria to Purcellville, Virginia along the Washington & Old Dominion trail. It was beautiful weather well suited for riding despite the strong headwind that challenged us most of the way.
The highlight was a surprise "Trail Angel" experience thanks to Ann, Charlie and Alan Balch who greeted us in Vienna. They were trail angels extraordinaire. Alan set up a rest stop table complete with water, spare inner tubes and a first aid kit. Ann treated us to individually prepared bags of the world famous Balch Chex Mix. You can't image how often we scooped into our chex mix stashes to power us along the way. Thank you Balch Family for taking such good care of us!!!
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One of the first of many chex mix power stops!
Our night's accommodation was the 1758-era Ballenger Farm Airbnb which was an ideal setting for our crew. The farm was complete with a flock of friendly ducks.
Today happened to be Pete's birthday so we celebrated him over dinner at Magnolia's Mill in Purcellville. A great start to our new gravel adventure!
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