Today marks the halfway point for me in Riding to Recovery. I’m celebrating the day with a half dozen friends tomorrow. We're going to ride mountain bikes at Anadel State Park. I also need to fess up here, I miscalculated (bad math) so I made arrangements around Sunday thinking that it was the halfway point, but today is the actual day. Good God, I used to be able to calculate simple math in my head, but apparently I should use a calculator from here on out.
So today I decided to do “service” as it’s called in the Al-anon/AA programs. I’ve been helping to gather bike parts in order to build a bike for a high school girl. Money is tight for her family and she wants to race in Norcal during the coming mountain bike season. So I sifted through all of my parts, and then asked my friends at WTB to look through theirs. I delivered mine last week, and WTB gave me the remaining parts that are needed yesterday, so today I decided that delivering the remaining parts that are needed for the build was a proper way to personally salute my halfway point in R2R. Getting another person onto a bike has been a mission of mine for years now, and giving back to kids is incredibly satisfying.I still managed to put in some miles on my way there, albeit with a heavy backpack on my back, and on relatively flat roads. I rode around the Paradise Loop and then detoured off to San Anselmo so that I could drop of the parts. So for me, doing service on a special day will be rewarded by a special ride with friends as we celebrate tomorrow. ;-)
Distance: 32.82 miles
Calories burned: 2,034
Time: 2:07:58 hours
Elevation gain: 1,045 ft
Garmin Connect ride details: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/20740218
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