Monday, September 18, 2006
The Berryville Century was sensational! We arrived at 8am with five bikes in the back of our van after spending the night at a hotel in Winchester. We just made it to registration by 9am because we had to put all ten wheels back on the bikes and get them turned up before we could take off for the "sign-up" line. Two of us (eight-year-old Madeline and her mom, Mary Pat) took off on the 17 mile "pink" route and the other three (twelve-year-olds Vince and Carl and myself) took off on the "green" 50 mile route. We all completed the rides with energy to spare (although I am slightly sore in my quads this morning! The organization of the rides was perfect--water and snack stops at just the right times, plenty of sag wagon support, and plenty of friendly helpful people. I would recommend the PPTC annual fall century to anyone that is looking for a good day of exercise and fun. Check out the FDA jersey in the picture--it makes even me look good!
Merton
Merton
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
