Sarah Outen will arrive in Chicago Wednesday evening!

Sarah Outen MBE, is a 29 year old woman from England, who is currently three quarters of her way through her human powered trip around the world by row boat, kayak and bicycle.

She's cycled more than 20,000 miles across 3 continents and 14 countries, She reached the Illinois border yesterday and is set to arrive in Chicago tomorrow evening (2.4.15)
From here she will continue her journey by bike to Cape Cod MA, and in May she will embark on the final leg of her journey by crossing the Atlantic by row boat.

She will be doing a talk this Saturday night, 7:30 pm at All Saints Parish Hall at the corner of Wison and Hermitage. Suggested donation is $10 to support the expedition

You should follow her on Twitter and check out her blog at www.sarahouten.com

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on February 3, 2015 at 12:13pm

Wow!

Permalink Reply by JMG on February 5, 2015 at 6:15am
Yes, "wow" is also my response to 171 views of my post and this being the one and only response. I guess everyone here is too busy being a "hard-core" snow rider to acknowledge this woman's amazing achievements.
Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on February 5, 2015 at 6:23am

My suggestion is to put this up as an event. She sounds very interesting and I'm sure a lot of people would like to hear her story. Her name isn't one that people are familiar with so it's possible people missed the full message when they read it. 

Yes, people are concerned about getting to work in the aftermath of the snow storm. 

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on February 5, 2015 at 6:51am
JMG, Sarah Outen is certainly inspiring to all of us in this community. I'm sure many of us would love to participate in an adventure with our bikes at any level of participation. Sarah, good luck, God speed, and "just keep on pedaling" !
Permalink Reply by David Barish on February 5, 2015 at 7:36am

Was she on Rte. 20 between Belvidere and Marengo on Wednesday afternoon around 1pm? I was driving to Rockford via this road and saw a biker with a full facemask and front and rear panniers passing eastbound.  I thought to myself, "I wonder if that is Sarah." I wanted to stop and talk but the rider was busy going one way and I was busy going the other.

Permalink Reply by Asper K on February 5, 2015 at 9:19am

I might go.   Curious to hear about adventure.   Although I worked out that she's been averaging <1mph...lol

Permalink Reply by JMG on February 5, 2015 at 2:11pm
David, yes that was her. She rode from somewhere north of Rockford to Elgin yesterday and according to her tracker she was on Rte 20 most of the way.
Thanks for creating the event on the calendar, Yasmeen/Cameron --I'm not connected to Sarah in any way, I just heard about her amazing journey a couple of months ago and have been following along on Twitter as she's cycled down through Alaska, Canada and now into the lower 48.
She'll be on "Chicago Tonight" tonight on channel 11
Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 6, 2015 at 4:41am

+1

Tom A.K. said:

JMG, Sarah Outen is certainly inspiring to all of us in this community. I'm sure many of us would love to participate in an adventure with our bikes at any level of participation. Sarah, good luck, God speed, and "just keep on pedaling" !

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