It sucks getting old!

My road bike took me many places during my five year stint in Statesboro. I rode quite frequently with a group of people from "The Bike Shop". I was comparatively a weak rider but I did accomplish the Bike Ride Across GA, a metric century and two centuries. I trained and trained for those rides and put over a thousand miles on that R800. So my son who is 17 decides he wants to get Dad's road bike down and see what it is all about. It was not long ago he was giving me grief about keeping something that I never ride. I take him to the West Orange Trail explain how the pedal clips work and off he goes. I took our hybrid bike to chase him with but it was mucked up so I lagged about thirty minutes. He was gone by a good ten miles. We talked to each other by cell and then he turned around and we met up and went back to the car. He knocked out 24 miles day one.

Day Two, on his own he went back to the West Orange trail and did both sides, from SR 50, and knocked out about 60 miles. He doesn't seem tired. I keep thinking he was a just a few miles shy of a metric century on his second outing!

Last weekend I took him to the General Van Fleet Trail. I barely could drive the truck to the two stops along the desolate route and beat him. I rode the last 11 miles to the end and back m on my mountain bike. He continued back to the Trailhead but he needed to be back in Otown by 6PM so bailed at about 50 miles.

Today he his on the "fresh air" ride out of Inverness, FL. He plans on riding 48 miles. Hundreds of people are at the event and he is fascinated.