First official team training ride this week. It was a bit warmer this week, but the wind was howling. It was so hard to get up the hills. Everyone did a great job and got the feel for riding as a big group.
Thanks for your support!
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Kick Off Party
Tonight we went to our kick-off party for the Summer 2007 Team in Training season. We met Mary Foley, our honored teammate for America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride and the rest of our team members.
What a great night! It was very inspiring to hear the stories of all the honored teammates, our coaches, mentors and the Team in Training staff.
Mary Foley
Honored Teammate
America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Pre-Training Ride
WOW! 35 degrees is just waaaay too cold to be riding a bike. We showed up at our first, unofficial training ride today. We had our leggings on, and we had ear covers, but we were completely unprepared for the cold. As we left our house in NE Portland, the sun was out and the wind was low. We figured we were in for a nice, if chilly, ride.
Not so much...as we drove west out of town toward the suburbs and our starting point, the fog settled in, thicker and denser than ever. Did I also mention it was cold?
We were just doing a short, 8-mile ride, nothing too hard, with a couple of short, steep hills. It was so cold, and so foggy that the fog was freezing on our eyebrows and eyelashes. That was pretty funny to see. I warmed up pretty well during our ride, but our feet and Sean's fingers were so cold...we went to the bike store that afternoon and bought some shoe covers and gloves with full fingers (our regular gloves are only half-fingers).
Not so much...as we drove west out of town toward the suburbs and our starting point, the fog settled in, thicker and denser than ever. Did I also mention it was cold?
We were just doing a short, 8-mile ride, nothing too hard, with a couple of short, steep hills. It was so cold, and so foggy that the fog was freezing on our eyebrows and eyelashes. That was pretty funny to see. I warmed up pretty well during our ride, but our feet and Sean's fingers were so cold...we went to the bike store that afternoon and bought some shoe covers and gloves with full fingers (our regular gloves are only half-fingers).
Thursday, January 11, 2007
We're committed...
Sean and I signed up today to participate in a 100-mile bike ride. Big challenge, right? How about raising $3,600 each in order to do so? Even bigger challenge, right? Well, it;s all for a good cause. We are raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Each year we seem to sign up for one challenging ride and raise money for a cancer charity.
My Aunt Dolores is currently in remission. She has 2 kinds of Leukemia. It's pretty crazy, you don't really think about it, or even know much about it until it happens to someone you know. But now I know that the type of Leukemia my aunt has tends to strike in the 1st decade of life, or in the 6th - 9th decade of life. My aunt is 65. Even stranger is that when my grandmother was in the holspital last January, dying from Pneumonia, they diagnosed her with Leukemia. One of the same strains that my aunt, her daughter, is now fighting.
Sean and I are pretty lucky. We have a good life. We are healthy. We enjoy riding our bikes. Why not combine these things into an event that can change the course of cancer research and get us one step closer to a cure.
My Aunt Dolores is currently in remission. She has 2 kinds of Leukemia. It's pretty crazy, you don't really think about it, or even know much about it until it happens to someone you know. But now I know that the type of Leukemia my aunt has tends to strike in the 1st decade of life, or in the 6th - 9th decade of life. My aunt is 65. Even stranger is that when my grandmother was in the holspital last January, dying from Pneumonia, they diagnosed her with Leukemia. One of the same strains that my aunt, her daughter, is now fighting.
Sean and I are pretty lucky. We have a good life. We are healthy. We enjoy riding our bikes. Why not combine these things into an event that can change the course of cancer research and get us one step closer to a cure.
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