Monday, September 11, 2006
Hello Everyone,
I am getting psyched about the upcoming PPTC/FDA Century ride that is going to happen in Berryville on Sunday, September 17. I plan to ride 50 miles with my dad. Because I have never ridden 100 miles all at once, my dad thinks we should do about 50 miles this time. He has ridden many centuries in his biking "career" but he wants me to try 50 miles first. I think I could ride 100 miles but he says we can do more miles "next time".
I wanted to put up a couple of pictures of our recent bicycling/hiking trip to New England. My dad has already put some information about what we did on an earlier post on this blog site but I wanted to put some pictures up too.
We hiked up some high points in the New England states and the most difficult one was Mount Katahdin in Maine. It took us about 8 hours to get up there and back. On the way down we had to hide under some big boulders to get out of the rain/hail/sleet. It was crazy with a kind of blizzard in August! My dad was worried about lightning but we didn't see any or even hear thunder. My legs were hurting for about 3 days after that hike.
The picture of me "getting air" at Killington is my favorite. We took the ski gondola up Killington Mountain about 25 times during a couple of days. It was the most fun because we could fly down the ski trails. Sometimes a was almost going 50 miles per hour. I crashed a couple of times but was not seriously injured. I would recommend this kind of biking to anyone. I had a blast!
Vince Smith
I am getting psyched about the upcoming PPTC/FDA Century ride that is going to happen in Berryville on Sunday, September 17. I plan to ride 50 miles with my dad. Because I have never ridden 100 miles all at once, my dad thinks we should do about 50 miles this time. He has ridden many centuries in his biking "career" but he wants me to try 50 miles first. I think I could ride 100 miles but he says we can do more miles "next time".
I wanted to put up a couple of pictures of our recent bicycling/hiking trip to New England. My dad has already put some information about what we did on an earlier post on this blog site but I wanted to put some pictures up too.
We hiked up some high points in the New England states and the most difficult one was Mount Katahdin in Maine. It took us about 8 hours to get up there and back. On the way down we had to hide under some big boulders to get out of the rain/hail/sleet. It was crazy with a kind of blizzard in August! My dad was worried about lightning but we didn't see any or even hear thunder. My legs were hurting for about 3 days after that hike.
The picture of me "getting air" at Killington is my favorite. We took the ski gondola up Killington Mountain about 25 times during a couple of days. It was the most fun because we could fly down the ski trails. Sometimes a was almost going 50 miles per hour. I crashed a couple of times but was not seriously injured. I would recommend this kind of biking to anyone. I had a blast!
Vince Smith
# posted by Merton Smith @ 8:03 AM 
