After I signed up for the AIDSRide, I was told that the most difficult thing is training. Who would have thought that?? Not me, until I finished the ride. Truth is that training was the most difficult thing simply because it took up so much time...and I didn't train as much as others. I started training in April and the ride was June 13. Considering I had never been on a roadbike, there was a lot to learn and a whole lot to buy!

Here we are (from the left: me, Jim, Joe, a really neat woman we met on the road that day who was doing the Vaccine Ride in Europe but I can't remember her name, Susan, and Molly). We were just coming back from our very first trip out to Purceville on the WO&D.