Happy Birthday, Gene!
Well, it is the day of the long ride! You can read about Gene's last year ride here. He tries to make 100 miles on his birthday on his bicycle. He has done it a few times. He started riding his age every year, quite some time ago. Then one day he realized that when he is 80 or so that will be a really long ride. He decided then to go for 100 and put some miles in the bank to use when he can't quite make it.
This year he will ride sort of the same route as last year. He will start on the New Mexico side on Highway 285 just before you get into Colorado north of Taos, New Mexico, and ride to Alamosa, Colorado and then come back. He did the practice the other day and did the 51 miles north so all he needs is 49 miles south, right? He hopes to do it all tomorrow. The weather should be good, it will be 31 degrees F (predicted) in the morning here. We hope to leave about 6:00 a.m. and it will be about 8:00 a.m. for the start. It will warm up quickly in the sunshine to about 75 degrees tomorrow. It will take him about 8 hours riding time with no wind.
I will read, paint, sketch and do crosswords and be the SAG car. We take snacks and water, etc. It will be a long day for me, I can't imagine how it is for him. Yikes!
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| Gene taking off recently near Angel Fire. |
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| His equipment on the practice ride in Colorado |
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| On his practice ride getting near Alamosa. |
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| Gene by the Rio Grande Gorge last week when Gen was here. |
Hopefully we will get to Red River to The Texas Red's Steakhouse for dinner. Happy Birthday, Gene!
7 comments:
Happy Birthday Gene! Have a great ride! As you drive north of Questa about seven miles, look east on the mountain side is where I used to live. About two more miles on the right is a hacienda style house with horses and trees in the middle of the flat lands - that is my good friends the Donnithornes - their house might make a nice painting.
Happy Birthday Gene! Have a good ride!
Happy birthday, Dad!
Happy Birthday Gene.
Bag Blog, it got too late to come back that way. Thanks for the info.
Johanne, Gene says thanks.
Joanna, thank you from Dad.
Jeanne, thank you, too.
Gene made 92.04 miles. Whew!
Very inspiring, Gene!! Happy Birthday and we'll do a toast for you!
Gene thanks you. I still can't believe he does that. He is already planning for next year. I also can't believe I didn't post the after ride photos, yet. Sigh.....
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