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Big shout out to Mila, my daughter, for being my ride along. She sent me encouragement messages and a few playlists ( from my favorite Peloton instructor Dennis Morton) to keep me going yesterday. Also shout out to Honza who is keeping all the balls in the air at home and at work. This a […]

Thanks to Lissa for being my ride along today. I got a shout out at her spin class too!!! We had a chat later to clear my head and look ahead to the end point. Also Sandy! Thanks for riding with us yesterday! It was so nice to connect and hear your stories of your

What a glorious morning! I slept in a nest of pillows until after six and Leary made my way to breakfast. I sat with Jim, Nate and J.C and we talked about winter sports and climate changes, lack of snow in France, fires in Colorado and how strange Chicago was during Covid. I sipped a

The last few days have been so great! Thank you to my Franklin Heights Book Club friends for coming down to support me on the Capitol when I rolled in- Andrea, Carol, Cathy and Kathy. So good to see you and hang out on the picnic blanket. My son Max and a few of his

Thank you to Kathy and my Franklin Heights book club for the ride along from Lacrosse to Spring Green! It’s so nice to know I have folks believing I can do this thing that I am making my way through. I can’t believe I ride a bike all this way already and I got to

Thank you Mila for the ride along today! It was again another long one that started with the same damn wind from the south. After lunch we were in the protection and canopy of a bike path for 30+ miles. It was along the Root river and mostly downhill. Wow! A respite! Until mile 105

Thank you Elenne for being my ride along, my fellow VQr!!! It was a good ride, kinda fast but not really any descents which I know you love! Today started with people taking photos of a pretty rainbow to the west, which freaked out this midwesterner. The sky was dark and rain was forecasted. I

Thank you to Dawn for being my ride along. This was a familiar route for her from South Dakota to WI. Today was a long day and I was happy to cross into state #7! Yaaay! Cause it was such a long day I had a mini meltdown when we had a detour adding 4

Lissa thank you for the ride along. She did a hike of 7.3 miles and 1200 feet elevation to share the mileage with me. Also she sent some really nice pictures of Lake Superior. I miss water out here in South Dakota. I can say that we seem to be approaching the Midwest. The drivers

Carolyn thank you for being my live ride along today! She was doing the door county century as I was doing my ride! Way to go Carolyn! Today was a shorter day at ‘only’ 76 miles. Our A team included Brian today so we had another person To our Pavlina through the fields. The day