Our charity fundraising team for the Ride to Conquer Cancer battled traffic to meet in Bragg Creek for a ride tonight. For those that made it out, it was a beautiful evening to ride - one of those we wish we had months more of in Calgary. We welcome more of you!
We wore nothing but smiles. Err, make that the smiles we had on never left our faces, and we wore bike clothes.
Ruby was like a kid with the wind blowing in her hair, but unlike a kid, missed Will's ice cream treat's post ride. Rubber side down from start to finish makes it happy and fun, and even those cattle gates didn't phase her.
Doug earned street cred with a great euro baby blue polo apres, and further hardman points by riding his mountain bike whilst not showing that he was breathing any more than usual. Note this in the annals of "Intimidation Tactics That Work".
Karen beamed smiles more than shifting gears, all the while insisting on needing to ride more. I see a solid and positive outing a few weeks away, and our pep talk designee on game day.
Angela set tempo out of the parking lot, shocking the group's legs into action... no wonder Trent was afraid to show. Lacey organised the pursuit while beleaguered Bakke cowered in his draft. Angela said she'd be offering hill pushes on the big ride for additional charitable donations. The finely shaved legs always give away a hard core cyclist.
The hills did what hills have done since the dawn of time - sifted out the groups. Lacey revealed that his year off of caloric restriction, riding on all continents, and cage fighting in his spare time have honed his killer instinct. Smelling blood early on the feeble BikingBakke, he toyed with surges on the first hills, then unleashed an attack on the last 6km climb to the summit past Elbow Falls near the end of highway 66. As Bakke crested the hill with his tail between his legs, Lacey's heart rate had already dropped to a sub 50bpm resting level and he had combed his hair for the podium ceremony later. Only later did I find out he had created a 24 page photo flip book of the exquisite mountain scenery on his iphone and had already ordered it for overnight delivery to show the family at breakfast tomorrow, "unencumbered by the FirstEnergy morning meeting" he adds.
We're in for a treat riding through the beautiful rockies for a good cause. Next week should have another outing, perhaps less susceptible to traffic hassles.
Till next week!
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