Hi TNT'ers!
WOW! Sign me up for next year...that was an awesome ride and experience!! Even if the wind was howling like crazy and the Spooner downhill was the scariest thing I've ever done in my life thanks to swirling cross winds, it was all still amazing...scenery, riders (I liked the 'Peeps' on the helmets of the Lehigh Valley, PA, riders...who knew they made those inedible Easter treats there?!), support.

For my first century ride...ok, first organized ride ever outside of our training rides, that was the way to go. Plus, the warm and fuzzy feelings of raising money to help beat blood cancer can't be beat.

A few tears on the ride...seeing the little girl holding up a sign saying "You are my hero," hearing people cheer "Go Cheesehead" (yep, we had cheese wedges on our helmets), seeing the photos on peoples bike's or Camelbaks of loved ones fighting or lost to blood cancers, and seeing all the shapes, sizes and ages participating and realizing that each and every one had in some way been touched enough by cancer in someone they loved to pedal for 100 miles. Awesome.

I'll be back next year...in better shape and having raised more money this year!!


GO TEAM-

UpNorth