The Century

This past weekend found us making the now-familiar trek up north to the wilds of northern Wisconsin (past such landmarks as the one pictured above), our singular goal being the completion of a century bike ride. Well, I say "our" in the figurative sense, of course. I certainly didn't ride 100 miles.

But the two strapping young lads who made up half of our party did. And they did it with gusto. In fact, the whole endeavor was so un-taxing for them that one of the two managed to water-ski later that day and both managed to accompany us womens on an 18-mile ride the next morning. Of course it's not like us womens sat around and ate bon-bons up to that point. We put in some major mileage on foot, preparing for our end-of-September half-marathon.

But the boys were really the athletic stars of the weekend. Three cheers for showing those puny hundred miles just who their daddies are.