SWMBO made the exact distance she made last year, and I made it just over a third of the way. I took over for someone who needed a break. The person I took over for is someone with health issues with her joints and making it as far as she did (2/3 or so the way there, and 1/3 or so the way back) was an occasion for joyous celebration! We celebrated with pie and ice cream and tea at a specialty restaurant near there. The bike I rode the distance I did was a neat battery/motor assisted bicycle. With the batteries and assorted mechanicals the bike is a heavy one, but when I put it in the lowest gear (8th) and hit a hill and started the motor assist, the hill was just like I was biking on flat ground. It was still hard exercise, but with the motor assist it was like you were on level ground all the way. The motor isn't a pulling motor - don't pedal and you slow down and stop - but an assist in hilly terrain. It's pretty pricey, though. If my workplace moves and I have to commute each day, I think I'd go with a Vespa or something like that. For the same price they're more practical on the streets and able to get me to work without being soaking wet with perspiration!
Anyway, a really, really good day, leaving SWMBO and I both feeling tired - a good tired - and pleased that we did so well...
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