January 31, 2013
I have 35 more days before I start bicycling west to east across the United States, from San Diego, California to St. Augustine, Florida, with a group of women riders with Womantours.com and we bike together for 58 days to cover 3,100 miles.
I will be raising money in honor of a good friend of mine, Suzanne Venino, who has ALS, Lou Gehrigs disease, through the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the organization in Colorado, where I live. Their contact info is:
http://bit.ly/Pedaling and they have been enormously helpful to Suzanne.
Another friend of mine has set up a Facebook page so people can comment and send their thoughts and that's at: www.facebook.com/PedalingAcrossAmerica if you want to add your two cents worth.
I have written a blog like this before, once when I went to China, and another for my late life divorce, and I think this is a great way to keep track of what's going on in your life.
Tonight it's just hit me that after February 28, there is only a week before I am in San Diego and on my bike. I have a long list of things still to do, including putting new tires on my bike and shipping it out there. But I think I'll get through them. And I'm a regular at the Boulder YMCA, pedaling on the stationary bikes, exercising with my trainer, and using those terrifying stretching machines. Keep in touch, and there'll be more interesting news once I get goign.
