The First Big Tester!

Hey everyone as I'm sure that you all know, at least if you have been following our blog, that Kelly and I were planning to ride from St. Cloud to St. Paul for Easter. Well we did it. It was a success, but let me tell you 87miles and 11hours in the saddle riding against a head wind the whole way can really take a toll on your body but we decided that it takes the biggest toll on your mind. It takes a strong will to continue riding when your quads are burning and you look down at the GPS and it says you are only going 10.4 mph when you're use to ride closer to 15mph, but we just kept trucking on remembering why we are doing this. It's for all the people with cancer, the people we have lost and the people that believe in us, but when we arrived at Kelly's parents doorstep we were completely wiped out. There was one point close to the end, probably only 3miles or so before the end that we had to stop and evaluate the options. We could either do two shorter steeper hills or one long and gradual one. We ended up taking the long and gradual one and it turned out alright. Kelly didn't last long after the ride. We arrived at 6.30pm and ate and Kelly was out about 9, but my second wind hit and there was some of Kelly's parents' friends over and they wanted to hear all about the ride so I stayed up and spoke with them. Easter was good, legs were a little sore but there was lots of great food and more people that wanted to talk about our ride. That night Kelly's legs were a little more sore, so we decided that it would probably be better if we got a ride part of the way since we both had to work all day the next day and didn't know if we would be able to walk. So we got a ride from her mom to Maple Grove and road our bikes from there. The ride on Monday went a lot better we had the wind at our back and we knocked out that 5o miles in about three and a half hours.
Over all this week has been a very successful training week for us. We made our first ride completely loaded to Clearwater and back that was about 25miles and then we road to the Twin Cities and back successfully. Proving to our self that we can ride that far and can be in the saddle for a complete day if we need to. We ended the week totaling 190 miles of riding. Prior to this week we have only ridden a total of 155miles since we got our new bikes. So we are really psyched about our accomplishments and are planning a few more shorter over night rides for the next few weeks to come. Thanks for all your continued support!!