Last December I completed the fourth of the Four Season Awards. I'd noted there is a certificate for completing the cycle, but I had not applied. After all, I have all of the seasons "on the wall". Why have a cert that doesn't really represent a ride?
Then, last night, Howard Entman posted on the IBA Face Book page encouraging people to ride the Spring equinox ride. In his post he noted that fewer than 60 people had the Four Seasons Award.
Ho Lee Katz! Fewer than 60? I'm in!
Hey, I know about the 100,000 miles per year/ three digit IBR people/multi-hundred cert riders/and other alien DNA types.
Not me. 100% human. My first cert was at age 60. My second at 65. Now at 69 I have just 9 (count 'em!).
I will never, ever, ever (absent some truly remarkable breakthroughs in medical science) be in those groups.
But Top 60 in anything IBA, I'll take it. Sure, YOU guys might laugh at that "brag".
But when I mention to local riding friends that I've ridden 1,000 miles in 24 their eyes get big.... then I say I've also done 1,500 in a day and their mouths fall open, THEN I can tell them "In fact, I'm one of fewer than 60 that..... " I'll be chuckling to myself.
Kind of like being the thinnest person to appear on "My 600 pound life", but we take what we can.
Y'all ride safe.
Then, last night, Howard Entman posted on the IBA Face Book page encouraging people to ride the Spring equinox ride. In his post he noted that fewer than 60 people had the Four Seasons Award.
Ho Lee Katz! Fewer than 60? I'm in!
Hey, I know about the 100,000 miles per year/ three digit IBR people/multi-hundred cert riders/and other alien DNA types.
Not me. 100% human. My first cert was at age 60. My second at 65. Now at 69 I have just 9 (count 'em!).
I will never, ever, ever (absent some truly remarkable breakthroughs in medical science) be in those groups.
But Top 60 in anything IBA, I'll take it. Sure, YOU guys might laugh at that "brag".
But when I mention to local riding friends that I've ridden 1,000 miles in 24 their eyes get big.... then I say I've also done 1,500 in a day and their mouths fall open, THEN I can tell them "In fact, I'm one of fewer than 60 that..... " I'll be chuckling to myself.
Kind of like being the thinnest person to appear on "My 600 pound life", but we take what we can.
Y'all ride safe.