Eric Lawton

CAPAPA Director; creating resources for access and privacy practitioners; privacy impact assessments

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Finished @1 pm, 221KM. Feel great. Glad to be done tho. Feel like a champion crossing the line. Think I can find Ange and my Dad?

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Skipped pit 2. Stop for "lunch" at 9:30 am. Sandwiches still frozen! Snacks instead+slap on the 45 spf. We're cookin now! 50 km Day 2.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Everyone's up before dawn. 5 am. Chilly. Hot breakfast put out by volunteers. Need my coffee!

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

I lucked out with my tent. While I was away the other guy took his stuff. So now I've got plenty of room to stretch out on diagonal.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Well, that didn't take long. Nancy found me and introduced me to 2 of her friends. Made my night.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

It would be fun to be here with a bunch of people. As it is, i only know Nancy McSween + we've rarely run into each other

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

14.5 million. That's 14.5 million steps closer to curing cancer.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Total raised this year: 14.5 million dollars. Some incredible sums by top fundraisers and teams. 1 guy got $130,000 I think. Amazing

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Speeches-3530 riders this year, including 8 blind riders and 1 guy with a broken spine.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Sleeping in tent city tonight. Cool. Food and entertainment provided. Awesome showers. Yahoo!

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Wow! Made it! Pulled into Mohawk College@3:30 pm, 7 hrs after starting at CNE. 113km total incl getting to GO stn + to CNE. Gimmme a beer!

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

That climb was hard on a lot of people, especially this late in the ride. People walking and some broke equipment.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Brutal hill in Ancaster climbing the mountain. Long, slow steep climb, then you see more!

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Skipped pit stop 3. Feeling good. at 90 km. Lots of rolling hills, beautiful countryside i never knew.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

'000s of Riders. All look like bumblebees in their black & yellow ride jerseys & black cycling tights. Bulges of all kinds, all places.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Lunch! Good setup at somebody's farm in Flamborough. Clocked 73 km to this point 1:12 pm Day 1.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Lots of hills, country roads through Milton. Crossed Guelph line, took a back road I've never been on.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Pitstop 2 11:30 am. Fruit, granola bars, gatorade. Feeling great. 51 km so far.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

No mishaps getting to the gathering place at CNE, thank God. Thousands of fitties here. All dressed the same.

[Eric Lawton @elawton]

Extremely nervous about putting my bike in the buses bike rack at the front of the bus. Imagining it getting crushed. : (