bbbuuttt, there's a slight problem. seems director-boy left his camera at home on the day of the ride. so, you'll just have to put up with these "artist renderings"
first, it was time to dig out the old bicycle from the garage:
upon registration at the american family insurance compound, you get a rider number and map (it's actual term is "cue sheet..."). along the route, there were rest stops with water, bananas & "larabars." "apple Pie" larabar=yummy, "ginger" larabar=gak!
Teri Barr MC'ed the event and sent all the riders off with a nice speech.
the american family compound is really beatutiful. a great place for a bicycle charity event send-off:
although western dane county is known for the scenery (because of the hills!), this northern route had some great scenery as well & and the sag wagons were right there if you had any problems:
while i didn't even have a flat tire, i know other riders had "mechanicals"...
Dan Zweig rode a different route than i did so i didn't see him, but he said his ride was nice, too:
all of the riders on my route were really nice:
and at the end of the ride, you got a goodie bag. although, i have to rate the NAB schwag bag higher on the scale (scroll down in this blog for more info):
then, the band rocked the house (er, parking lot)!
so that's it. again, thanks to all of you that donated to the american diabetes association and the madison edition of tour de cure! i'll be hitting all of you up in july for the boys & girls club of dane county benefit ride. until then, laissez le bon temps roule!
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