Big Ride - Day 1

Well, I can’t say the first day was enjoyable. After a brief ceremony at Liberty Park in Renton - where we found out that collectively we raised $130,000 for the Lung Association - we were off. By 8:30 it was raining hard, so we stopped to put on our rain jackets, rain pants and shoe covers.

If I could have seen anything through the rain and rooster tails off of everyone’s back wheels, I’d write about the route. We did see a cow with “ginormous” horns during one of our dry spells. The kids across the street from the pasture said its name was Chief.

At mile 80 I was mentally tapped. From there until Lewis & Clark SP I counted every 10th of a mile.

Fortunately, the ride director arranged for us to stay at a lodge that night. We mostly got dried off and were able to hang our clothes out to dry. Everything but my arm warmers were ready to go by the morning.

101.4 miles down...many more to go!

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