Walden Relief!

Here is our 90 degree, hot week in review:  Our regular jaunt down the bike path was done in perfect humor on Wednesday morning.  When Kevin gets his funny stories going, you are laughing for miles and before you know it and it’s time to head back home!  Appropriately, for Independence Day on Thursday, we met at the North Bridge in Concord (à la shot heard round the world…) for a ride out to Carlisle, Bedford, Lincoln, and Sudbury. It was a hot 50 mi ride! We passed several turtle crossings, however, none of our hard-shelled friends ventured out of the cool mud.  I wouldn’t have either, but there were miles to log.  While Kris took a sampling of some edible landscaping, we wondered how we would resuscitate her if her botanical taxonomy skills were misguided.  She survived her experimental grazing and we all jumped into Walden Pond to cool off at the end of the ride.

Help!!

The Thursday route was so good we repeated it on Saturday morning this time with along Kevin and Lee.  After 18 miles we stopped at Fern’s to refill the bottles, laugh at Kris’ new gloves and eat some salty pretzels so we could still think straight.  Onward into Sudbury where we were able to put our steamroller rescue training to the test.  Later through the hills, Heather was moving so fast we thought she might catch a bird in her teeth.

With three training weekends to go, here are our fundraising pages:

MC http://www.pmc.org/profile/ML0203

Dana http://www.pmc.org/profile/DS0304

Thank you for your support!

There were no turtles or birds harmed in the writing of this week’s blog.

Four Training Weekends to Go!

Well, there are only four training weekends to go before the PMC 200 mile ride and we can hardly believe it!  We are working adding distance until we get to that secret mileage goal each of us has… which really means you better get your front wheel on right and align that sensor to be able to log every single centimeter. We are also in our final stretch of fundraising for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute & The Jimmy Fund and all contributions are welcome!

Dana:  Most of the last week was spent with family near Edmonton where it is very FLAT and where the canola is just starting to bloom.  I swear, with my road bike on those flat roads, I am sure I could have hit 50km/h through those yellow blossoms.  Ha!  Instead, a 10km run was logged, with a short stop to visit the famous Fort Saskatchewan living lawnmowers.  Later along with my brother, a 20km ride was done through the North Saskatchewan River Valley logging a few hills and a gigantic flight of stairs up to the Legislature – where the Union Jack was flying high to commemorate the Jubilee.  I was back to Massachusetts in time (to fix two flat bicycle tires and) for the hot weather and the 48 mile Ride to the Stars hosted by Eilidh & John out of Carlisle!  Here the gang including Kevin, Gregg, Julie, Christina, Lisa, John and Eilidh rode not quite to the stars but up to the MIT MISA Antenna and the MIT Haystack Observatory.  Oh, and just a word of caution – at 90F the Promax Double Fudge Brownie energy bar will melt in your back pocket!

MC: While Dana was logging some miles on the road, I logged some miles on the Kennebec River, enjoying White Water rafting at its best, and some running in the rolling hill of rural Maine.

On the way back, we caught up with some of the Best of Maine, rewarding ourselves to some great views and delicious treats of New England! 

 

 

 

Hmmm, with 4 weeks to go, am I spreading myself too thin, enjoying too many other activities than cycling? I will have to get those miles in next few week for sure. Until then, I’ll keep giving it my best on my commute to work (what’s not to love about this view of my commute?),  and hope all this cross-training thing pays off on the big weekend!

 

For those of you who may be on the Cape the weekend of Aug 4-5 and want to come by to cheer, or simply avoid the roads we will be riding, you can click on the links to get the map right here:

August 4, Day 1 – Sturbridge to Bourne

August 5, Day 2 – Bourne to Provincetown

There are only four weekends to go!  Which means we are training hard and which also means there are five blog posts to come!

Thanks to our supporters, we have currently raised 50% of our fundraising goal for this very important cause.  For those who haven’t yet contributed, you still can… by clicking right here:

MC: http://www.pmc.org/profile/ML0203

Dana: http://www.pmc.org/profile/DS0304

Until next week….watch for the stars!

MC and Dana