ITS FINALLY HERE

SOLVANG HERE WE COME.....
THE TIME IS FINALLY HERE.... WE ARE ONLY A COUPLE OF DAYS AWAY FROM THE BIG RIDE...
WE ARE LEAVING FRIDAY MARCH 12TH... THE KIDS ARE GOING TO SCHOOL JUST TO TAKE ROLL.. AND WE ARE HITTING THE ROAD BY 9. WE ARE HOPING TO BE IN SOLVANG BY 3 FOR A SHAKE DOWN RIDE WITH THE GROUP. THEN TEAM IN TRAINING IS HAVING A DINNER. A GOOD NITE SLEEP AND START THE RIDE BRIGHT AND EARLY SAT MORNING. MARCH 13.
IT'S WED NITE AND I'M WAITING FOR BROOKE TO GET OUT OF SWIMMING SO I CAN GET HOME AND FINISH PREPPING THE BIKES. HEATHER'S BIKE IS ON THE STAND NOW. IF I GET HER'S DONE TONIGHT I CAN DO MINES AFTER WORK THUR AND START PACKING.... OUR LIVES ARE SO CRAZY. WITH WORK AND RUNNING THE KID'S AROUND... UGGGGGHHHHH BUT SOMEHOW IT ALL GETS DONE.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT OUR ADVENTURE. WE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT ALL THE HELP FROM OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. CHECK BACK FOR THE POST ABOUT THE RIDE. WISH US LUCK

10 WEEKS TO SOLVANG SUMMARY

Well 10 weeks to Solvang is in the history books...we are now on 9 weeks until the big ride. I calculated our miles and hours in the saddle from last week. It was a good week. We rode 117 miles 40 miles being our longest ride and we were in the saddle a total of 8 hours felt like a good week. The weather looks bad this week and we are just starting to feel good, like we have no bugs etc. so we might do our training inside on our rollers this week. Next post will be about our 3 bears ride this past weekend.. that was our 40 mile ride.

As of Monday 1-11-10 we have 61 days till Solvang... getting closer ..
and we have 45 days till our deadline (feb. 25th) to hit our goal of $2500 each
as of today it looks like this......
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Watch for the updates on the Loard's Ice Cream / Mike and Heather's Team in Training Adventure Fundraiser. Tentative date is Feb 7 2010. It will be an ice cream social with a 50/50 raffle, prize raffle , prize wheel, jail and bail , and maybe a band and face painting. So if anyone has some prizes they would like to donate to the raffle feel free to call Heather at 510 299 5177.

CHALLENGES CHALLENGES CHALLENGES

I'm glad this adventure has so much meaning for me behind it... because it would be easy to say forget it and I'll just hit a different century later in the year.. I don't need to get in shape right now .. I'll wait till after the weather gets better.... we are running into lots of challenges now that the new excitement has wore off....I'll just sign up for the summer cycle team in training... but I believe in things happen for reasons and it must be my time to do this... so I will push through all these challenges and raise money for LLS and have a great ride in solvang....
1. its cold outside
2. its raining on the days that I want to train
3. fighting off the flu
4. it gets dark way too early
5. I want to take a nap on the couch in the afternoon .. not go ride in 40 degree weather
6. kids schedule... running around like crazy even without the training...
7. getting the right combo of winter clothes... too hot now I'm sweating .. too cold now I'm miserable... oh now its raining .. i don't have rain gear yet...

but all this being said.. .the little note on my handle bars that says im riding for pops go team ... along with all the names of the people who have donated to LLS to support me and the peoples names that are suffering from or were taken by leukemia or lymphoma make it all worth while... ...