100 miles

Nancy and I hit our 100 mile mark in our training. We're still way behind last year and way behind Ned with his impressive 250 miles, but we picked up the pace a bit with today's ride, averaging 12.4 mph. It helps that this ride was all on nice open road surface, closed off to cars and the weather was just perfect for riding.

We did the Art Museum loop - well not really a loop - more like up and back - twice for a total of 25 miles. We took a quick pit stop at the beautifully restored Philadelphia Water Works and took in the view across the Schuylkill of the famous Boathouse Row.


Our training is still fairly hill deficient. Neither of us had the steam to make it up the super steep hill that almost all our rides entail unless we drive to the beginning. I swear this hill is really killer even though it looks pretty in this photo. Thing is there are two more hills after you get up this! Last year we were able to do it, but we haven't even attempted it so far.


Hope everyone is having fun and we can't wait to see you all!