Thanks for the input MM_QFC, I will definitely put my ticket up on the board around June. I'm sure I will have no trouble finding someone. Hopefully next year will be my year for riding in the STP . . . AND . . . MAYBE . . . doing it in one day?! Dare I try?

And mimitabby . . . are you really going to ride in this year's Century Apple in Wenatchee? I will look for you!!!!!!! I believe you when you say, "When it's hot . . . it's HOT!" Joe and I went to Leavenworth one Memorial Day weekend and brought along our road and mountain bikes. We did a 60 mile road ride and it was in the 90s! We were beat at the end of the ride! We crashed in our hotel room after the ride and slept for about 4 hours straight. The heat really took it's toll on us. Then the next day we did a mountain bike ride with friends up Devil's Gulch and around Mission Ridge I thought I would pass out from heat exhaustion about 3/4 of the way up. Luckily for us a man in a huge truck took pity on us and gave us a lift the rest of the climb. We only had 2 miles to go of the 14 mile climb but I don't think I would have made it. We have done the ride many times before no trouble but the heat that May really was horrible and we were not used to it. Plus we started late. When we do the ride we normally start around 7 AM but that day we weren't on the trail until almost 10:30 so we hit the hardest part of the ride, the climb, during mid day heat!

Thank God for kind strangers!

Hey it's supposed to be sunny and upper 40s today! When I get home from work (I get off at 2:30) I am going to take my road bike out and go for a spin around my area. Get my sunglasses out! He he