SPOKIN' HOME - A YEAR OF ADVENTURE

We love to travel and especially to visit our family in Denver. Four years ago we had the crazy idea to ride our bikes home from Denver, approximately 1550 miles. Over a period of several months we told many people about our idea - the idea began to turn into a plan and before we knew it we had told enough people that we were going to do and couldn't turn back!

So over a period of four months we started seriously working towards doing this. There were some ups and downs and we certainly were not in the condition that we hoped to be by our start date. We started by doing biking on stationary bikes at the LifePlex in Plymouth, IN. We have had some good hours on the bike and were able to watch a few movies on their projection system while biking. It is great to have such a nice facility. I admit that watching Julie and Julia, instead of the 2008 Ironman is a little different workout, but it has been fun.

We had a great ride for 1,000 mile and then we had a little mishap. If you read through our blog Stick with our blog you can read more about that cycling experience and other adventure for that year.

Now we are four years down the road. Many good things have happened to our family during those years. On May 28, 2014 we will return to our last riding point, get on our bikes again and finish the last 500+ miles. Join us as we continue our adventure.




Tuesday, July 13, 2010

We are going back - Magee 3 Triathlon - Scholarship

To Be Continued ...

I don't know if anyone is still checking the blog, but I thought I would catch up on a few things.  Today we did a little talk at our local Optimist Club about our ride.  It was fun putting together our talk and some of the pictures to try to capture our trip.  There were some nice comments, but we both agreed that it is difficult to explain what an impact the trip had on us.   

We have talked about going back to finish the ride several times.  For most of that time I thought we were talking about going back to finish the Katy Trail.  That sounded great to me.  Well, after more talk Mary Kay's idea was to finish the rest of the ride - Rocheport, MO to Plymouth, IN.  It looks like that is what we will be doing, probably early next June.  Honestly, we miss the riding and feel incomplete.  So hopefully, we can bring a few people back to our blog as we continue the adventure.  It has been remarkable hearing about people who were pretty consistently staying with us through the blog.  People I would never have thought would be interested stop us almost everyday and make some comment about our ride.  We wish we could keep an interesting blog

This is a big week for us!  Saturday - July 17 is the Magee 3 Triathlon.  This is in memory of our grandson, Michael Noel Magee.  It has always been special and a great day.  In the past we have donated any proceeds after expenses to local emergency services in the area.  Those services were so important to our family ten years ago.  As I have said before we believe Noel was our angel helping the four other members of our family survive a very bad accident.  It should be another great day.  Many of the participants are friends of our family and many have young children of their own.  In addition to the triathlon, we have finished of with a short run for the younger kids called Noel's Run.  Well, those kids are getting bigger now and many are ready to try something a little more challenging.  We have decided to add Noel's Triathlon this year.  This will be a very shortened version of a triathlon, suitable for five to nine or ten year olds.  It should be another fun way to celebrate.  I will post some pictures next week from the day.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank those who have decided to donate to the Michael Noel Magee Scholarship through the Marshall County Community Foundation.  Anyone still interested can make a donation by going to their website - http://www.marshallcountycf.org/ and click on the link to the scholarship in the middle of the page.  Remember our goal was to encourage everyone to - Do Something for Others Today.  This might be a way for you to do that, or you may have another idea.  We encourage you to do something, we found these acts so important and inspirational on our trip.   Have a great week!

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