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17 May 2003Success story in the makingBitter Hag, who's been mentioned in these pages before, is going to undertake something next month that would probably kill the likes of me: she's taking part in AIDS/Life Cycle 2, which is a seven-day bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. You heard me. San Francisco to Los Angeles. Five hundred eighty-five miles. Even when I was a mad cycling fool in my younger days, I never did 80-plus miles a day for a whole week. My tailbone hurts just thinking about it. This being a charity event, she's lined up over $2500 in sponsorship money from readers of her journal. And barring complete and utter catastrophe — say, San Andreas widening by a couple of miles, plunging Highway 1 into the Pacific — there's not a chance in hell she'll let us down, either. Good luck, BH. Enjoy that hot tub at the end of Day 7. You were once a cycling nut? Do tell! Oh, and if you ever decide to mount the wedgie-matic again, consider yourself invited on a ride with BQ and I! Posted by: Joe Goodwin at 11:49 PM on 18 May 2003When I was a student at UT Austin, I rode all over the place, including a fabled late-night ascent of Mount Bonnell, a story which still appalls family members living in the area. I sold my bike when the Army came calling, but I bought another one once posted to permanent party, and saw rather a lot of central New England. Nowadays I'd be surprised if I could even get on a bicycle. SecraTerri has some good cycling tales on her site, a lot of which stem from her possibly-insane goal of 2002 miles in 2002. Check her archives. Posted by: CGHill at 7:50 AM on 19 May 2003 |