Getting to Know You!

[ready2cycle]

Real name: Joyce

Where do you live? Kansas (it's not all flat!)

Explanation of your handle: None needed

Age (general or specific) over 50

Occupation: accountant, wife, mom

Favorite bike: Cannondale hybrid

What's in your stable? Only one and I use it for everything.

Fastest speed on a road bike? where? when? Huge Kansas tailwind and I wasn't trying to break a record so I wasn't peddling....43 mph downhill coming into Council Grove, Kansas in July 2003.

Most fun I've ever had on my bike: 45 MPH South Tailwind pushing me North--through the Flint Hills of Kansas. Several times that day I rode the fun hills for 2 plus miles without peddling!!

Rail Trails I've cycled: C&O Canal Path (Cumberland, Maryland to Washington, DC...loved the PawPaw Tunnel), Virginia Creeper Trail (Damascus, VA...downhill all the way), Prairie Spirit Trail (Ottawa, KS to Welda, KS), Elroy-Sparta, Great River, La Crosse River, and 400 Trails in Wisconsin with my son bike-camping (the people of Norwalk are wonderful!), Paseo del Bosque Trail (16 miles in Albuequerque, NM), Orange County Bike Trail near Orlando, FL, Delaware River Tow Path in Pennsylvania and Delaware and Raritan Canal Tow Path in New Jersery.

Usual rides: My husband loves to fish, so many times I'll ride to where he's fishing OR he fishes in lakes near the route I'm riding.

Biggest Accomplishment on a Bike: Completed 5 centuries in one year. The best one was 115 miles from my driveway to a small town motel with a whirlpool!!! (My husband fished in 3 different lakes that day!)

Any state tours or organized rides: Santa Fe Trail Ride (Santa Fe, NM to Independence, KS)-I rode only 4 days of 21; Bike Across Kansas (BAK), Cycle Across Missouri Parks (CAMP), Touring Ride in Rurual Indiana-September Escapade (TRIRI).