Riders anxiously awaited the go ahead for the ride, from initial counts there were over 750 riders this year participating in the event. There were routes of 5, 9, 12, 28, 38 and 64 miles AND an addition of 5 mountain bike routes from 7 to 13 miles or you can combine them for a 50 mile mountain bike challenge.
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| Riders waiting in the early dawn fog |
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| Riders of all skill levels participate |
There were riders of all skill leveles and ages. The weather was magnificant and amazing for October at a balmy 80 degrees F by mid day. Some riders combined the 64 Mile metric century with other rides to make a full 100 mile century ride. One set of riders did that on a tandem bike and that would be Shawn and Dawn co-owners of Hometown Bicycles who were also celebrating their first wedding anniversary.
The route chosen by my friends and I was not real long but it was the hilliest route of the courses available. I felt them all! What a great day, a great ride and all for such a great cause! Newspaper article and photo gallery can be found
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| Deb, Deb and Tim |
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| Ready to go in a rest up |
hi Deb! Sorry for the lack of comments - I had a problem with Blogger which seems to have been fixed now so I am playing comment catchup across all my favourite blogspot and blogger blogs. Your TDL looks excellent - beautiful weather and a good choice of nicely planned routes. I love your orange shirt too!
ReplyDeleteCOngratulations on your 1k riding, that's brilliant. You've done so much this season you should really be proud of yourself.
Deb - i love your Tour De Livingston top. Sounds like you had fun. Do you know that i've never ridden with a group that large - I've never signed up for a major cycling event...maybe one day. I'm always afraid I'm going to crash into someone at the start. I love bike riding, but I'm a bit klutzy too :)
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ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind comments, the jersey was earned for raising funds in last year's ride. The new color for this year is blue, black and some white. They're pretty sharp looking and I have raised enough funds to earn one of those too.
Sue, there is really nothing to be afraid of because in this event the groups go out in flights. They call up the longest route riders, second longest etc so forth. They do go out one group right after the other and the ride starts out on a road where traffic has been halted until the riders get out of the parking lot of the ski/golf lodge. Riders fan out into sub groups pretty quickly based on pace.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun going out with so many others but it becomes dispersed pretty quickly. Last year I was not paying enough attention and got "out of the gate with" with very experienced and fast riders. I got caught up in the crowd and missed my turn off but I was able to rectify that and believe me - I paid much more attention this year!
It really is fun to b e part of a big event.
Thanks Deb, I will give it a try one day.
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