Cadel Evens wins the 2011 Tour de France
For the last three weeks, I’ve been enjoying the Tour de France. Cadel Evens from Australia won this year, and that makes me happy. Evans began his cycling career as a mountain biker, which is the kind of cycling I do, so I like it that he started there. He switched to road cycling over ten years ago. As a pro road cyclist for so many years, he has earned my respect because he’s stayed at it, despite numerous crashes and setbacks. I admire his determination and perseverance.
Last Sunday, I celebrated my 51st birthday. It was a lovely day filled with lots of my favorite things to do. We went out to breakfast, then headed to our local state park for a two hour mountain bike ride, back home we watched the joyous conclusion of the Tour de France and even got in some Formula One from Germany. After dinner was ice-cream and princess cake, my favorite!
Annadel State Park 7-24-2011
This is me on my trusty Votec Bike. Not too bad for 51!
Have a great week everybody, and I’ll post a little something again next Friday.