Well, the first weekend in August was a great weekend for riding and another MS bike tour is done! Steve and I did the 100 mile "century loop" each day on the tandem--and we have the sore muscles to prove it! Day one was quite cool and a bit rainy in the morning, but we were soon were dried out by the 20+ mph head wind! Even with that, we had a great ride that day, and made it from Pewaukee to UW-Whitewater in about 5 and 1/2 hours (not counting rest stops). We had a good dinner and went to the awards ceremony to catch up with the rest of the team. I made it an early night--I popped some Advil and headed to my dorm room to rest up for day two. Sunday was much sunnier and warmer, but we still had that nasty head wind to contend with. We also found we had a broken spoke that delayed our start a bit--must have been all that hard riding from day one! Day two is the hillier of the two days, and took us from UW-Whitewater to the Alliant Energy Center in Madison. We found we were not quite as ambitious as we were on day one. Our 40+ year old bodies do not repair themselves quite as quickly as when we were in our 20's! Still, we completed the century loop on day two and made our goal of riding 200 miles over the weekend. All in all, our team, the Sonic Streamers, raised over $116,000 for MS research!
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