[Sportsandrec] {Disarmed} Fwd: [blind_cycling] Yesterday's ride

[Ron Burzese]

Thought you all might enjoy reading Penny’s account of a 4-day, 123-mile bike trip that she completed last month. You can find it on her blog, at the below link.

Cool runnings,

Sacramento Ron


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> From: "Penny Fleckenstein goodthaimom at gmail.com [blind_cycling]" <blind_cycling at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [blind_cycling] Yesterday's ride
> Date: August 29, 2016 at 8:23:02 AM PDT
> To: Blind Cycling <blind_cycling at yahoogroups.com>
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> In the morning, I went to church. I asked Beth if we could go for 
> a ride later that day. She said she'd get back with me after 
> talking to her husband. She called me in the afternoon and said 
> she'd be here around 5. I was feeling that we needed to go for a 
> short fun ride--nothing too challenging. We went on the Riverfron 
> trail close to my home. It felt good to get out there just Beth 
> and me when we can talk women stuff.
> 
> We planned to ride for about an hour and a half. Four miles in, 
> we had to get off the bike because the bridge was closed There 
> were kayaks and canoes every where and not enough space to ride 
> through. That was a bit of a disappointment. Just as we got on, I 
> heard thunder. Beth thought we could go for another mile and then 
> turn back. I told her that my intuition was to turn around then 
> and head for the car. She didn't agree with me, but turned 
> around. As we progressed back to the car, she said she felt I 
> made the right decision. The coulds were dark and grey. The 
> thunder was getting louder, and she could see lightning.
> 
> She loaded the bike in the car. Right after we were both 
> comfortably sitting in the car, the raindrops came. We couldn't 
> have timed it better. We concluded that 8 miles was better than 
> zero miles. I felt good when I came home. It felt wonderful going 
> out there, having some girl talk, and just riding. I hope we get 
> to do it again soon.
> 
> Beth and I are still planning for a century. Her kids have 
> started school which will make it a little more challenging to 
> fit riding into our schedules. We'll see what happens.
> 
> I finally completed writing up my Pittsburgh to Cumberland, MD 
> trip. It is a little long to post here but feel free to read 
> about it on my blog:
> http://notyouraveragesinglemom.com <http://notyouraveragesinglemom.com/>
> Feel free to write to me about it when you're done reading. I did 
> a whole series starting with Conquering My Fear Of Biking The 
> Great Allegheny Passage. After that, I wrote The Resilience Of 
> Children, Weighing Our Options, The Power Of Praise, and finally, 
> The Empowerment Of Athletics. I hope all of you will take time to 
> enjoy and read about my bike trip and write to me. I need to 
> write a shorter version for Challenged Athletes FOundation and 
> for the Consumer Vision Magazine. So far the only thing I've 
> contributed to Consumer Vision Magazine, which is online, is my 
> Tips For Vips column which runs monthly.
> 
> Keep your ride stories coming! I hope everyone has a good day.
> Penny
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