Ray & Bill's 1st annual NTV bike ride was a huge success. We both woke up early to set up for the ride. I set up a canapie and brought out a table & chairs,w/a umbrella from my patio. We knew it be hot. Come mid day it would reach 90 degress. Also set up 5 gallons of water & 2.5 gallons of gatoraide. And our neighbor gave us a cooler fulled w/ ice cold half liters. Then I set up some snacks cookies, bananas, and chex mix. Ray was working on his famous bagels, made from scratch. 8 o'clock was fast approaching and we wanted to start on time. At 8am we had 14 riders. It was great to see neighbors & kids joins us for our maiden loop. We had a told of 25 riders all doing what they can. Both Ray & I knew today was more about our comunity involved, not about speed & time. Each loop was 3.56mi. and today we weren't counting loops. We took many breaks through out the day, our last break was at 88mi. we enjoyed our last few miles talking about how glad we were that we did this. We finished with 102.65 miles.The next day,a mom posted on our neighborhood webpage bullitin board "thanks for organizing it, my boys had a BLAST".. seeing that made it worth doing the event ..300mi./24hrs..Yes..Yes..
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