Thanks for all of your insight. Reading through the postings I see that us gals expected too much from him. When my girlfriend and I started to ride, our very first ride was about 30 miles. We woke up the next day and thought "wow this biking stuff is going to be easy!" but then we didnt' really factor in the five days a week at the gym for the past year doing three days of weights and two days of kickboking / bootcamp cardio stuff! LOL So, no cycling is not "easy" we were just alreeady in great shape.

Update on the "boy" - we did a 27 mile tour with him and his father yesterday (Sunday) along with more than 2000 other people. He did great! There was an a$$ kicker of a hill that his father elected not to do but he did most of it without walking.

Thanks everyone!