5 Boro Bike ride coming up

Seven Floridians and four Georgians will be riding with 30,000 fellow cyclists. 

The Norman's family van has been transformed into a bike hauler.  With four bike mounts inside and a Yakima rack on the roof for three more bikes.  The van will head to NY on Thursday with Chance and Brandon.  The rest of the clan will be flying into JFK Friday.  

• Check-in at a BB on Staten Island and the Bike Expo in Manhattan on Friday
• City tourists or a local bike ride around SI on Saturday
• 5 Boro bike ride on Sunday
• Fly out on Monnday
• Chance has resurrected Penny so he will be loading the panniers and riding to Washington DC along the adventure cycling mapped route.  Chance will stop at a friends place in NJ on the way down.   
• Stephanie and Brandon will be driving the van home via DC and Savannah or Statesboro.   

Should be an exciting weekend!!

2013 MS Bike Ride

Another great ride through the orange fields of Polk County. This year Kevin, Mathew, Sally and I did the 100 miles on Saturday. Eddie, Chance, Debra, Jeremy and Jana did 50 miles. Sally suffered the most with a new seat that was not right for her. On Sunday Chance, Mathew and I headed back doing another 50 miles. Amazing how this year the hills people have complained about really stood out.
 
 
 

   
 
 
 
 
 

Mega Medical Center loop

On April 7th Kevin and Mathew did what I am referring to as the Mega Medical Center loop.  This 80+ mile ride is perfect primer for a flat Florida century.  With St. Cloud at the mid-point and the shopping center at Narcoosee and LeeVista at the 3/4 mark; this is a great ride.  We also pass many other cyclists, usually going the other way.  Bike lanes for 90% of ride makes it a safer ride than being in the road.  On April 11th Sally, Mathew and myself did the ride in preparation to the 2013 The Citrus Tour, MS bike ride. The details are below.  Realize we did have a moderate N-NW wind which slowed are progress coming up Narcoosee.