Earlier today I received the following email from my friend Cecil Ledesma who is riding with me in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope Baltimore to DC Fundraising Ride:
I wanted to see if you received your official rider # and packet in the mail. I have not. Should I be worried?
Kathleen and I were returning home from a weekend in Boston, so I hadn’t seen what arrived at our place on Saturday. I told Cecil that I had exchanged emails with a Tour of Hope organizer who told me that the rider information packets were being mailed at the end of last week.
When we arrived home at about 4:00pm today, we found an envelope addressed to me from the Tour of Hope which had been sent from Trenton, NJ (about 10 miles from our house). This contained a 13-page magazine that says 2005 Registration Packet on it.
Last year, DC Fundraising Riders received a lot more stuff in the pre-ride mailing. This year, they only sent us the informational booklet. I guess this means that there will be a lot more to pickup at the Packet Pickup that will take place at the JW Marriott in Washington on Friday or at Howard County Community College on Saturday (beginning at 5:00am).
My wife and I will have to adjust our strategy at the start this year. We have to arrive earlier and she will have to park the car, because my jersey will not have a number affixed to it before I arrive. I’ll probably want her to take some of the stuff they give me at the Packet Pickup, so I’ll have to go register and come back to the car. It almost makes me wish I had time to go into Washington on Friday night to pickup my packet at the hotel.
In any event, if you are riding on Saturday and you haven’t received your Rider Information Packet, you should be receiving it in the next couple of days.
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