PAGE 12 - November 19, 2008
The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
Coast to Coast Biker Makes a Stop
It’s Almost Window
In Inglis-Yankeetown
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52 year old Nancy Byrd has a goal to see Florida this year by biking the state. She got
the idea while looking at Google Earth and decided since she lives in Florida, why not see it
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first hand. This is quite a change from her profession in computer programs, medical billing
software. Nancy rides her Trek Racing Bike "Madone" with a light weight carbon fiber frame.
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Nancy set off on her "sunrise to sunset" mission biking Hwy 40 coast to coast at 7
AM Saturday morning when she dipped her back tire in the Atlantic Ocean in New Smyrna
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Beach and headed west with a goal of touching her front tire in the Gulf of Mexico in
Yankeetown at sunset. Of her 10 1/2 hour day she biked 7 hours and 12 minutes, averaging
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15.7 MPH, traveling 113 miles. Missing the turn on Hwy 40 in Dunnellon and going south over
the overpass cost her the sunset at the end of Hwy 40. Son and daughter in law, David and
Katie follow along doing sight seeing and side trips while mother keeps her feet to the pedals.
At dark she was at Pine Lodge in Inglis and reluctantly settled in to wait for morning and the
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end of her journey.
Nancy said she had been reading about John Harrington, a former astronaut, who
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was biking from Washington State to the Kennedy Space Center. His goal was to get kids
from 8 am to 12 noon
interested in science. She had emailed Harrington and told him of her plan to bike cross state
and be on the lookout for her as they would pass at some point. Sure enough the highlight of
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her trip was when she passed him 7 miles west of Hwy 17 on Hwy 40. Nancy has not been into
this enough to have a website but she said you can Google John Harrington and see her hero
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for the present. The end of her trip she got to enjoy some Inglis English hospitality with the
Day's who run Pine Lodge Bed and Breakfast. The next morning she rode to the end of Hwy
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40 and dipped that front tire in the Gulf and headed home to plan her next trip.
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