M-S Bike Tour

This past weekend we participated in our annual fundraiser fo the M-S society. The Rona M-S bike tour. Despite their neutral stand on the CCSVI procedure that seems to have benefited Sarah and so many others, we feel that our support and gentle persuasion for change in thinking is the best plan for us. When we were doing our open farm day last weekend, I would never have thought that by this weekend we would have had our first cut of haylage all done, but we ignored all weather forecasts, and got 'er done. So, after a late spring and sketchy weather, we are all caught up to where we were at this time last year. And the bonus, no broken bones! We welcomed Simon back this year, but due to pregnancies and other reasons our team was down to just 4 this year. Here are Carrie, Jesse and I waiting to start. Simon will be here before we go!

Tanya was upset that this would be her first year not biking, she left home at 6 AM to be here with the girls to see us off. But ended up being the official photographer for the Psycows.

Here we are getting ready to go. I told you Simon would show up!

Nanny and Tanya were waiting for us in Norton. We won the Team Spirit Award, mainly for the enthusiasm that was shown by Tanya and her girls. Emma biked with us from Norton to Hampton, it was not warm out, and even after it started to rain, she declined an invitation to stop. "I want to do this for Nanny!"

The rain stopped, the cold didn't, but we got to Rothesay. I can't say Jesse left us in a cloud of dust, as it was too wet for dust, but there was no catching up with him. Here he is with Sheila at the finish line. After awhile, Carrie and I biked in.

We enjoyed a great meal at the banquet, and were pleased to earn our top fundraising per team member trophy for the 4th consecutive year! Simon also earned a personal fundraising award.

It was definitely HFC (hurting for certain) on the return to Sussex the next  day. But Grandma met me in Hampton with some Advil, and I soldiered on. And Emma, I think she wants to bike again!

And we did.

Notice Carrie in the background? Well here she is, still smiling! Proud of you Carrie!

And me!

At some point after this picture, both Jesse and I had flat tires. I needed air twice for a slow leak and Jesse had a blow out which was fixed quickly by Bill, from Darling Island Bike Shop. But we finished, and looking for those pictures.