The Miles Are Getting Longer (or I'm Getting Older)

Let me start off by saying that we just finished riding 69 miles. If I sound incoherent, I probably just haven’t had enough recovery time prior to writing this!


The day was cloudy – all day. It was also windy, because of Sandy. You remember her? The former hurricane, now just a tropical storm. Fortunately, the first half of the ride actually sent us pretty much straight into the wind. The second half put the wind at our backs, but also threw in a few rolling hills just to see if our legs could take it. I’m still debating as to whether or not a nap would be a good thing right now…

The rides available were 33, 44,54 and 63 miles in length; we chose the 63 miler knowing that, although we aren’t the fastest cyclists to invade this planet, give us enough daylight and we’ll finally show up at the end. And so it was today: last at the lunch stop, and last to hit the finish point. But we did the big ride and we made the distance, even if we only averaged 14mph.

Lunch was at Grand Oaks Resort; this evening will be a buffet for the tandem riders at the Lake Miona Recreation Center here in The Villages. And now… I need to go pass out for a little while!