Wooo Hooo!!

Yippie!! I've done my first "century ride" - 100 miles on Saturday. We finished that off with 72.6 miles on Sunday. I guess it's actually the Scenic Shore 142.6. It just doesn't have the same ring to it as Scenic Shore 150.

Over 172.6 miles I averaged 16.62 miles per hour, had 10 hours and 20 minutes of ride time and had a maximum speed of 30.6 miles per hour. Calories burned: 4,900. We had a blast! There were over 900 riders that participated.

It was raining steadily when we left Mequon - the rain isn't so bad as the spray in your face from the bike in front of you, and the spray up your back and butt from your own bike. My shoes and socks were wet enough for a fish to be comfortable in. Here are some pictures from our group huddled under the tent before the start.

It stopped raining as we went North and we were dry from mid-morning on. We stopped at the first stop and rode past #2 - there was Nate standing there! I yelled at him to meet us at #3. It was quite a surprise to see him there. I heard later he'd been planning it all week - just there to cheer me on. Thanks Nate!!

Here are a couple pictures from our lunch stop around 11:00 or so. We were finally dry, but it was a little chilly right on the lake.

We started the optional century loop at around mile 62. Here is a picture of everyone from our group that did the century on Saturday. We circled around and ended up back at the same rest stop.

Even though it stopped raining, unfortunately it was very foggy along the lake most of the day, so our views weren't as great as they could have been. Once we had set up camp for the night it cleared up and the sun came out. Here is a picture of the camp - you can see the lake in the background.

Before dinner Kayla and I decided we should have some wine and ibuprofen to help with any pain we might feel later...

Dinner was spaghetti and more pasta and bread and ..... watch your plate Bob, Jim looks interested.

Here is Jes showing Jack some stretching moves. Stretch those hips Jack....

After all the rain we experienced on Saturday, we had dry hopes for the next day. But when you are outside all night there's always the dew. We got some saran wrap off a cafeteria food cart and Stephanie thought it looked like the perfect size to cover that whole bike....is that a body or a bike under there?

Thanks to the weather, we got to enjoy the sound of a fog horn all night! At one point there was a ship on the way in to the harbor answering back. Really lovely at 11:00 at night. Then the lightning came and it rained. I'd say I fell asleep around 11:40 and was up at 5:00am.

Here is a picture of some of the group on Sunday morning ready to go at 7:15 after a restful night. The green shirts (me on the bottom left) are for raising over $1,000. Greg is the other one in the green, our team captain.

Here is a picture of the "girls riding group" we had going for much of Sunday. Jes said she was happy to be riding with the girls - me too!!

This picture was for Olivia - can you say "WOW" with your body?? Yup Olivia, I can!!


What a blast!! I can't wait for next year!!!!!