What's your dream?

[Melalvai]

I have various goals, like 2nd century, overnight bike trip, bike to my folks' (>200 miles), and survive the winter.

But my dream is this:
I'm a grandma sitting in a rocking chair telling stories about my cycling adventures. The words "In my day," come out pretty often, even though some of the stories are from last week. I'm wearing my combat boots. Suddenly I hop up, grab my bike, and pedal away! My grandkids huff & puff to keep up.

It's up to my daughter to provide the grandkids. In the meantime, I'm working on the stories. Some of them are sligtly exaggerated!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Great thread.
Like you, my dream is to be old and riding. My dream is for my husband and I to both be riding into our early 80's together somehow.

[Mr. Bloom]

10 years ago, Silver and I were hiking in the Smokey Mountains. We came across an elderly couple...probably in their 80's...on a very difficult trail. He had a cane in one hand and his wife's hand in the other...and they were hiking that trail together.

We set a dream then of "being that couple".

[Zen]

If I'm poor as dirt I'll still be quite happy in life to be known as "that old lady who rides her bike".

But my dream is another story. That one involves building contractors.

[LBTC]

That's my dream, too! The two of us riding our bikes more and more the older we get!! There won't be our grandkids to tell stories to, but there will be friends' grandkids to spellbind! heehee

Of course my goal is for the homeopathic treatments to work so I can actually *ride* my bike this year.

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[teigyr]

A long time ago when I first started riding, I was training in Southern California. I was on a bike trail headed from the beach and had road tires on my mtn bike. I was training for my first century and was doing a lot of miles at the time.

As I was lamenting to myself about the heat and the wind, I hear knobby tires behind me. This man starts to pass but then hangs back to talk. I explained I was training for my first century. This man, who could easily pass me on knobby tires, explained that it was his 70th birthday. He was going to ride 70 miles then go home and drink champagne with his wife.

I always thought that would be what I would want. Of course, DH is welcome to ride with me

[dellafalls]

My dream is to live car free, grow my own food, ride around on my bike as I age with a dog in the basket and a few running behind like some ecentric old lady. My kids say I don't have far to go!!!