Tour dE TUCSON and OTHER rides

[Biciclista]

Raleighdon is fine. he finished gold, 5 hours, 30 minutes... he rode 108 miles in that amount of time!!!!

[maillotpois]

I saw Raleighdon rght at the start - amazing! we lined up pretty early and were there a while. just as we start crunching forward before the gun, I saw him. I called to him and said hi. he will have no clue who I was, so maybe you can tell him mimi. I pointed out my daughter in matching kit on the tandem.

CA that car hit a pretty fast finishing group. tragic. we didn't see it.

my 12 year old daughter is a GOLD finisher. honestly, given how strong DH is they could have had platinum, but we had three flats in the first 10 miles.

I lost them at mile 40 on a big downhill. if you lose the wheel at 40 mph, you're gone. the since I didn't see them at the next logical place, I assumed they'd stopped, so then I waited a long time - and of course they were ahead of me. and they waited for a while for me. it was funny. the key is we all finished safe. I vwas really nervous about Em doing it. but she did great and more important she had a great time.

[Blueberry]

Glad all TE'ers seem to be OK and accounted for.

MP - Congratulate PP from us! That's amazing! Glad it was a good ride!

Mimi - Did he have a jet powered bike That's awesome.

Dogmama - Sadly, I think the same would be true here

CA

[jobob]

Congrats to you and yours !

[Biciclista]

Malletpois! Oh how cool, you "met" Raleighdon, (but i've still never met you!) congrats on your super achiever child!!

Raleighdon was definitely rocket powered. And today he rode about 50 miles and then he got tired and stopped.

[Dogmama]

Whew! Glad everybody is safe!

Here's my "brag." Five years ago, DH was diagnosed with colon cancer & given a very bad prognosis. Yesterday he rode the 35 mile. I caught up with him and we road in & crossed the finish line together. It was awesome.

We went through a year of complete hell with surgery, MRSA, blood clots, a week in ICU, infections of unknown origins, pic lines, wound vac machines that didn't work, vancomycin drips (2X day for 2 hours each) chemo and eventual repair of hernia (caused by getting violently ill from chemo). Today, he's doing great! (I'm a little nervous about the 5 year checkup, but I'm always nervous before those...)

[Dogmama]

Here's a cool picture from El Tour.

http://regulus2.azstarnet.com/gallery/view/3474