October 15, 2010

Mike and Wayne decided to head over to Las Vegas and try out the Viva Bike Vegas Century ride (115 miles!) through the Las Vegas Valley. The cool thing is that this race included a ride across the new Hoover Dam bridge. Unfortunately, Mike and Wayne were too late to sign up so they couldn’t do the bridge, but they did everything else!

The guys at the starting line in downtown Vegas.

At the starting line and sitting with all the “faster” roadies.

Here we go!

The banners and set up. The riders got steaks from Outback when they returned. Nice!

Mike and Wayne made some good time. The first fifty miles only took them three hours and they were able to complete the whole thing in about six hours. Considering Mike was on his mountain bike (with road wheels), we consider this a major accomplishment.

Congrats to you both!

While Mike and Wayne did their century ride in Vegas, I had a whirlwind day with the family. It started out with Jen picking me up downtown and heading down to Henderson to meet with dad and the nephews to see Mike ride by.

We headed over to Mission Park and played for a little bit while we waited. We found this amazing slide and found out it was even better when you used Sarah’s jacket to fly down.

But…there were some catastrophes.

But, it was fun.

The rest of the day consisted of passing off water and gatorades to the bikers, going to Dad’s to play Sequence, shopping with Mom and Sarah, eating some amazing sushi, and having a late night chat with my dad at In and Out when he got off work.