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Day 30 and 31 7/1 - 2/07 boulder

Wake up was at 5:30, we ate breakfast with our four ride alongs then headed out pretty quickly. The ride was mostly city type riding so there was a lot of stop and go. It was a short 55 miles to the chapter house at CU boulder. On the way there we met up with a red bull rep., a girl we met the night before. She stopped on the side of the road and gave us a bunch of free red bull. Once in Boulder we ate lunch and showered at the chapter house then prepared for murderball. Murderball is rugby for quadriplegics, an awesome sport. The players haven't lost all use of their upper limbs, but all do have some sort of limitation involving their arms or hands as well as completely paralyzed legs. This sport is tough, they took it easy on us and completely dominated us. Two of the team members play on the US para Olympic team and were also featured in the documentary Murderball. We were on our own for dinner, most of us went to the chapter house and cooked up some steaks and then headed to bed.





The next day was a day off. We didn't have anything to do aside from a sponsored breakfast at a local cafe. We decided to float the river in the afternoon. It is a river, changed using concrete to suit kayaking and kayaking competitions. It was scarier than white water rafting. Instead of rapids there were 3 and 4 foot waterfalls where you got sucked under and spit out seconds later. It was also really shallow in spots... A lot of bumps and bruises. After tubing we went and played campus golf... Which is really only an excuse to hit things on campus with a tennis ball using a golf club. After golf we returned to the chapter house to relax before our busy day in Denver.

Day 29-6/30/07 fort collins

Wake up this morning was at 6 am with bagels and cereal for breakfast. The ride was short... Only 50 miles.

There was a beautiful horizon and an ugly road side view with cows on right and sheep on the left, as far as I could see. Lunch was provided by the Colorado state chapter, our first steaks of the trip. BBQ to perfection. After we returned to the senior center we made some bike shop runs and prepared for our friendship visit with Adaptive Recreation Opportunities, it was pool and pizza, which made for a fun night. We each were teamed up with a person from the organization and we competed tournament style.



After the friendship visit we relaxed before going over to the chapter house to hang out for the rest of the night.

Day 28-6/29/07 cheyenne

We woke up at 5 am to a warm breakfast cooked by the Laramie bike club, it was great. Omelets and breakfast burritos and fruit. The ride started out great until we got to the pass we had to cross... 6 miles at a 6% grade, but once we got to the top it was more or less downhill. It was kind of a humbling ride because Laramie bike club members rode along with us, Marc and I rode with a woman around 60 years old and I was pushing up that hill nearly as fast as I could go. Once at the top it was more or less down hill we only had 35 miles from the top but it seemed to drag on forever.

We had our first fully organized arrival led by police, which is always fun because its the only time we get to run red lights and disobey traffic laws. We were led to a park where we were met by the ARC of Laramie county and the Laramie Cowbells, which is a division of the Wyoming Cattle Women's Assoc. The lunch was excellent and we were read a proclamation from the governor declaring June 29th Push America day in Wyoming. After we finished lunch we rode to Laramie County Community College where we showered and hung out until dinner, which was at the same place with the same people. After dinner we headed out to see the night life, ended up at the Outlaw Saloon. It was a good time, a country western bar with a live country band, line dancing and a ton of cowboy hats. They looked at us pretty funny when we walked in, but didn't give us any trouble like the taxi driver said they would. We all left at the same time and headed back for bed.

Day 27-6/27/07 Laramie

We woke up a 6am to leave Wheatland middle school, and started on our 80 mile ride to Laramie, Wy. The majority of the ride was up hill until lunch time, then there was a short down hill into Laramie. The ride was actually kind of miserable, it was about 95 degrees and we were going so slow up the hills that the deer flies had no problems biting us repeatedly. We did however pass by an animal refuge where there were moose, elk and bison right next to the road. I did get charged by one of the male bison,

he was big, luckily he ran into the fence before he got to me. Once we made a left onto whatever highway took us into Laramie we started getting passed by 10 or 15 semi's at a time... Apparently they were all headed to Frontier Days (in Cheyenne) a month early, I guess its a big deal. The semi's were out of our hair once we got into the city, and it wasn't long before we wound up at our lodging, the Laramie Community Center. After showering up we all went out to Wingers for lunch, a restaurant I thought only existed in Moscow, Id. We were allowed to use the facilities in the community center which doest mean much because not many of us really felt like lifting or running after our ride, but we did make use of the hot tub. At 5:30 we packed into our vans and headed for dinner with the Laramie Bike Club. After dinner a bunch of us sat down to watch the Reno 911:Miami movie, which if you haven't seen it is pretty funny... Stupid funny. Then we went to bed.

so i got hit by a car. it hurt

so i am kinda skipping a few days so i can let everyone know that i am alright. for those who don't know, i was hit earlier today along with 3 other cyclists. two of us actually went over the top of the car while our bikes went under. the other two got out of the way in time with just scrapes. here are the pictures

NEW PICS!

There are new pictures uploaded to old posts so scroll down and check them out. One includes J Mack Daddy with developing leg muscles and super sweet tan lines!