Summer Breeze Century Ride For Autism

We did it! Our first official 50 miler! And I didn't even get hangry... luckily, they had those delicious pb & js, watermelons, oranges, and bananas at that pit stop.

In my new cool shorts and my awesome new gloves (not pictured here) with my sweet new bike computer!

The "fat tire" kids, as a few of the other bikers referred to us as. Maybe we will get lucky and win one of the radical road bikes they are raffling off.

Thanks for carrying everything :)

Also, I'm excited to "inadvertently" match you in our new shirts... muahahah.

The camping beforehand was fun, too! I'm glad we got to go to the Fish Tale and get dinner and ice cream, and also that we made it to Cohen's in the morning for some delicious bagels.

Thanks for bringing the jiffy log and the s'more supplies:

Block Island Bike Tour

We camped out at Burlingame the night before. 

In the morning, we ate breakfast at Two Gulls Cafe, and then took the high-speed ferry over to the island with our bikes.

 Our route:

 First an out and back from the dock to the Northern lighthouse,

 Then around the perimeter of the island (with stops for an Arnold Palmer from one of the many lemonade stands and checking out the Southeast lighthouse).

We then stopped for lunch near the dock and afterwards rode back up to Rodman's Hollow where we hiked to the beach for a swim and a short nap :-)

Once we were finished at the beach, we rode back down the hill via Old Town Rd and got ice cream while waiting to take the ferry back to the mainland!

Chris Pic of the Week

Sleepy boy in the tent at the Dolly Copp campground near Mount Washington. :)

XC Bike Trip Training (Ride #1)

 

The race logo! 

Scenery on the ride there.

Exploring Bennington College

Sunday morning @ our little tent site with the cheery little camper inside!! :-)

Map of the day's ride, including the ride down to Dunkin Donuts for food and coffee before we started the marathon course.  The numbers along the route denote the mileage at that point in our ride, in 5 mile increments.  The total distance that this shows obviously doesn't take into account the detours we took, both on purpose and by accident.

Graph of the elevation for the whole ride... on either side of mile ~30, it should be a mirror image.

Highlights, in chronological order:
-Waking up next to a nice little pond in our cozy sleeping bags and tent ;-)
-Cameron's shorts
-Watching the start and then getting breakfast even though we didn't have time for the Diner
-Leaving ~1hr after start  and enjoying good weather and scenery for the 1st half of the ride
-Cheering on Cameron @ about mile 20!
-Cheering on Julie (& Casey) @ about mile 21!
-Cheering on Charity @ about mile 24!
-Following Charity through the finish (~3hrs, 27 mins)
-Seeing a random lady collapse near the finish :-/
-Cameron finishing under 4hrs
-Julie (&Casey) finishing... hopefully Julie will qualify for Boston next time around
-Snacks at the finish line
-Rachel betting me a gatorade that she could run over a orange traffic cone without crashing.  I was happy to lose this bet and cough up the change @ Stewarts :-)
-Riding in light rain
-Getting a little wet and dirty
-Getting soaked and covered in dirt from the road
-Rachel getting hangry and acting like a person from the Snicker's commercials "You're not you when you're hungry" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MixNh9L7G5M
-Riding up the big hills back to the start line
-Changing into dry clothes in the field where the car was parked
-Eating our leftovers from Chili's the night before on our ride home