Congrats on your 100 mile ride accomplishment!!

Blessings and prayers to all affected by cancer (my family included)

Thank you for riding for a great cause, as always...

Darby <collier.darby@...> wrote:
Well after just under 6 hours ( alot quicker than I thought I would do
it), I completed my first "century" (100 mile) bike ride today in the
LiveSTRONG Challenge Austin. Actually it was my first organized ride
of any kind. Wow did they have some monster hills or what!? Anyway,
the Fuji Roubaix was fabulous. The only REAL challenges were the
insanely huge hills that had a few of the others walking their bikes
up. I just grunted through somehow and found a way to make it up them
all, albeit many at a very slow pace with my pedals moving a gazillion
rpm. I only had to shift to the third crank once all day though, so I
think I hung in there okay considering all my training was here in
Houston where it is ALL flats. I will start training for another
century in the next couple of weeks, and I think in preparing for this
one I am going to find a nice steep garage or something and do some
hills and repeats. I definitely recommend that anyone doing one of
these has a good training plan ahead of time. Now I am going to soak
in the apartment complex hot tub for a bit.

This was a great thing for me to do, having lost my stepfather and
stepmother both to cancer, and watching my young neice get diagnosed
at the age of 2 and have to go through treatments and lose all her
beautiful hair for the next 2 years. She is a survivor and soon
turning 8 years old. I am kind glad it was tough and kept with the
name Livestrong CHALLENGE, because it made me appreciate it more.

Let me give a special thanks to ALL those who donated time, money,
prayers and encouragement, without whom I would have been sitting on
my butt today. Special thanks to Jason M. for taking time to drive me
to and from Austin, and wait for me as I rode and to his family for
helping more than I could have ever imagined by helping me arrange a
place to stay after my planned host backed out when their plans had to
change. And Jen, thanks for offering to find a place for me with
friends if I got in a crunch. God bless you all, and God bless Lance
Armstrong!






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