The Birds and the Bees (and the Bikes)

This was not supposed to be such a long time off from writing. Life got in the way in the past year, and this blog was left behind. Some remarkable changes took place in the backyard farm, and in our cycling life. And there are big plans in the works for the next couple of [...]

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Marcello completed the ride at 7:06 am this morning in 85 hours and 6 minutes. Congratulations we are proud of you!

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Just talked to Marcello he’s about 90 miles from the finish and predicting he will be done around 4 or 5 am. He is in good spirits other than having missed a chance at real hot food as all real restaurants are closed at 9PM. One last junk food stop and hopefully he will be [...]

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As of late last night Marcello had napped 2 times less than 90 min each time and was headed out again. He was figuring to be out of phone range for about 24 hours. Some of the guys are past the turn around and headed back.

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Marcello is off on his adventure to GRR!  You can keep up with the riders here for times, (Updated after everyone gets through the control.) and here for written updates. ( updated about once an hour give or take a bit.)

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The more I look at the stats and the more I read rider’s stories from the 2005 and 2001 edition [added 5 more reports to my collection today], the more I am impressed by those riders. They mean business. The fast riders don’t seem to slow down for anything, not heat, not lack of sleep, [...]

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This past week gave me several opportunities to be even more proud of Anna than usual. For the third time this year, she made the honor roll. Even with a challenging math curriculum (she is learning pre-algebra this year) and some heavy language arts workload (including some fairly advanced Great Books curriculum for reading), her [...]

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