Mike's Bike Blog

This ride was the best ride I'll every go on, well there will be 2 more rides in my lifetime that will equal it. On Saturday Jack and I rode the 6 mile route. At 7 years old this was his first event ride.  Jack was pretty excited the entire week. On Thursday we went to Bicycle Sports Shop to pick up our ride packets. Jack wanted to get some Hammer products so I got him a chocolate Hammer Bar and Banana Hammer Gel. On Friday night we went over our bikes, put air in our tires and made sure everything was mechanically sound. I had planned to ride my mountain bike but Jack wanted me to take my road bike because it has 2 water bottle holders.

Saturday morning rolled around, Jack ate half his Hammer bar for breakfast, we packed up the Expedition with our bikes and we packed up the entire family and headed up to Liberty Hill for the Spokes N' Spurs ride. It was a bit chilly at the start of the ride, I think it was around 40 degrees, but it did warm up on the way back. The course was pretty flat, there were some very slight hills. Jack made it up all of them. One in particular had him huffing and puffing but he made it up it at the top we stopped for water and proceeded on. The turn around point was a rest stop. Jack was excited to get to the rest stop so he could eat his Hammer Gel. The rest stop was stocked with PB&J sandwiches, Chex Mix, homemade cookies, and water. Once Jack had his fill of Chex mix and water we headed back.

Jack averaged 7.7 mph on the ride and completed it well under 1 hour. Most importantly had had a great time and is already asking to do more rides, but he wants to bump the distance up a bit as 6 miles is too easy. Ethan is wanting to do a ride and wants me to find him a 6 mile ride he can do. I've been looking on Craigslist for a greared bike for him.