AIDS Life cycle ride

[Trek420]

well, it's getting down to the wire. I've been sending updates to my sponsors on the AIDS ride about once a month since October when I registered. Now it's down to last minute preparation and tune up the fitness, try to keep up the momentum. But i thought to my self "self" I thought "wait a minute, my TE community has made this all possible. Those gals taught me so much" so:

Hellooo TE friends,

I'm riding 585 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles in June. I'm
dedicating this ride to the memory of Brad Wall, and of course my Dad, Jack Rudinow

training is going well so far or…"what does not kill me makes my legs
stronger" ;-)

My endurance feels better than last year. I need power for those hills. Spazzdog designed a program to build strength. Thanks Spazz, I think it's working.

Last year my training rides were 30 miles and 1 long ride, the Cinderella. I decided to do some harder training rides this year. The Primavera climbs East Bay hills including one local cyclists call "the wall". It was a challenging but beautiful scenic ride. I felt fine the next day.

TE folks all know I got a late start and didn't do the metric on that one but I'm glad I did that ride.

I'm lighter than last year, haven't lost muscle. Nothing makes the
hills easy but there's less of me to haul uphill. I'm down 4 pants sizes and yes, I'm eating.

This is waaay cheaper than buying lighter parts for the bike, but less fun.

I **Love my job** I'm using it get used to riding multiple days. My
ride to work is 2 miles, home can be 12 miles (scenic & safer route).
The week before the ride all training stops, just rest and eat a
balanced diet, plenty of water.

I love that part of training ;-)

Preparation .... getting ready for the ride
Last minute preparations include flight back, making
sure Mae (faithful dog) has a place to stay. I'm
tenting with rider Bike Goddess, she's a very strong and fast rider. I want to be her when I grow up ;-)

Where we're riding
I've been asked a lot about the route:

Day 1 San Fran to Aptos 87.5 miles
Day 2 Aptos to King City 100.7 miles
Day 3 King City to Paso Robles 77.2 miles
Day 4 Paso Robles to Santa Maria 98.7 miles
Day 5 Santa Maria to Lompoc "only" 43.5 miles this is the hardest day.
Day 6 Lompoc to Ventura 88.3 miles
Day 7 Ventura to LA 82.4 miles

You're invited to opening and closing ceremonies:

Northern California is at the Cow Palace this year, if you're going
just ask me for time, directions, info. or check the web.

If you're in Southern California the closing ceremonies are Saturday,
June 11, 2005
Wadsworth Theatre Grounds
VA Center
11301 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90025


You'll be able to follow the ride from the internet! From June 5th till
June 11th just go to
www.aidslifecycle.org. they will be putting up pictures daily.

I'm the one with the mermaid on her helmet ;-)

You also can send an e-mail message of support/encouragement to a rider
from the site, just reference your riders number:
mine's 5650
Bike Goddess is 5481
annerol??? we need yours.
Anyone else here?
We'd love to hear from you, it's so encouraging to get those.

We won't have e-mail access to respond. Our crew prints these out and we
see them in camp each night.

Keep it clean folks, everyone in camp reads reads them ;-)

off to the indoor trainer I go

byeeee!

TREK