Tour de Gap

The Tour de Gap for 2007 has come and gone. For those of you who don't know about it, it is a bicycle ride that is held in Buffalo Gap every July to benefit the local food bank. BikeTown helps sponsor it and Jim is involved with the planning and execution of it. For the past several years I have ridden in it. This year I got to add something new to the experience. Since the boys are no longer using training wheels, I finally got to take one of my children with me! Troy and I rode the 10 mile route together. (There are 10, 25, 48 and 70 mile routes.) He did awesome! Other than stopping to try and help someone whose chain had slipped off, we never stopped - even on the hill climbs. He just kept plugging away and rode the whole way. He was excited and I was so glad that I got to share that time with him. Next year I look forward to having Trent join in the ride.

I want to brag on Sherry and Lauren who also came out and rode the Tour de Gap. This was their first bike ride like this and they were amazing! Lauren - you can come ride with us anytime! (You too, Sherry.) :)

The Tour de Gap always coincides with the Tour de France which our household watches daily during that 3 week period in July. (I know - we're weird!) This year's Tour brought up some interesting conversations in our home. Among other problems, the leader of the Tour was fired by his team two-thirds of the way through the race because he had lied to his team about where he was during a scheduled drug test in training season. It was assumed that he was doping in order to perform better in the upcoming race. The kids didn't understand why he wasn't in the race anymore especially since he was winning it, so we told them about what happened. Troy asked, "But why would an adult lie?" That led to a very interesting talk about lieing and cheating! It's amazing where life lessons can take place.