Well this was my first year doing the Big Bike for The Heart & Stroke Foundation. I started late raising money so sadly I only raised $60…but my great company that I work for, The Home Depot, will match my fundraising efforts and turn that into $120!!! Isn’t that awesome?!?! As a team we raised over $3200 with our company match! That is only the tally from the people that showed up tonight, there were quite a few that did not make it…they wussed out because of the rain! So we may be a lot more then that!
Only 12 of us showed up to ride the bike…far less then the 29 that it can hold. Thankfully it is quite easy to ride. The only thing is that in Grande Prairie we start a the bottom of a large hill…they gave us the option to push it up the hill but we decided to ride up…I wasn’t in on that decision I can assure you! I feel like a smoker again is all I can say! They told us afterwards that no other team has been able to make it up that hill with that little amount of riders.
We did a short circuit because we were pretty wore out as a group from the hill and lack of legs pushing…we were gone around 20 minutes. It was fun, we had people honking and waving, pointing and taking pictures…the whole nine yards! Here are the pictures, I’m looking forward to next years ride already!!!
They told me the shortest pedals were in the back…notice where to tallest riders were…wtf??? As you can see, my short butt had a hard time getting on…
Notice the hill? Not loving that hill…
On a side note, Ethan wanted to just run around and play…and was a total little shit the whole time we were there. He charmed everyone but I’m sure they sighed a big sigh of relief when we went home…
He spent a lot of time chasing a squirrel around the park…that was the cool thing to do!
Anyhow, we are looking forward to joining in on many more good causes like this one as a family…we will all benefit in the end!
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