It’s week 12! That means it’s time for the last training ride of the MS150 season!! Stephen had promised us that it would be short and flat and easy. (Traditionally, it has been short and flat and easy.) But, since it’s 2009, it had to be different, didn’t it?
We started at Manvel High School, down on the south side of the city. It was flat, I’ll say that. But, of course, there was some wind to fight. Nothing was nearly as bad as we’ve battled all season. It was long – 52 miles. And I can’t exactly say it was easy, given the chip and seal pavement and the bumpy roads.
However, we had a tremendous time! The kids were in rare form – for the last 20 miles we rode all together (we’d been in pairs before that time -- Erin and I saw a guinea hen chasing a truck when we were riding together and we just giggled about that for another 10 miles.) and we sang all the silly songs we could think of to pass the time. We had a pirate theme for a little while – (Selections from Muppet Treasure Island, The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything, etc) and then we sang some Raffi songs and some Tom Chapin songs, then finished up with some selections from You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. This along with my new bell/compass (which doesn’t work very accurately) kept us noisy and happy and plugging along.
Now we head into the last week. We won’t ride our bikes at all until Saturday morning when we head out to Austin. I can’t believe it’s almost here!
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