A Great Bike Ride!

Scenes along the 21 mile loop (Moose antlers and Woodford Reserve Distillery)

Yesterday turned out to be a great training day. Anne and I had decided earlier to get out on the bike and try to get around 20 miles in. As said earlier we are all (Mary, Ken, Anne, me) training for the Mooseman Triathlon in New Hampshire. I picked The Mooseman Triathlon because I have a fascination with the moose. I have always thought they were neat creatures and so when Ken told me there was a tri named The Mooseman, I knew we had to do it. Plus we are going to make a vacation out of it and spend 5 days in Maine, which is going to be AWESOME. I say 5 days but I am not leaving until I see a moose!

Anyway, back to the training day. Mary called at around 5:00 and said that she was going to go bike with us today because she wanted us to do a different course. We did a 21 mile loop and it was absolutely gorgeous. We couldn’t have asked for a better afternoon. We rode all the way down to the KY River and then came back through some of the most prestigious horse farms in the country. I think I appreciated being out there more today then most days because this is Derby weekend. Since our love of horses is what brought us all together to begin with I thought it was really neat that we were out biking through some of these major horse farms. Along one part of the course we rode past a barn that had moose antlers hanging over the doors. Mary quickly saw this is as a sign and I think we all pushed just a little bit harder after that. You can tell that we are getting very excited about this triathlon. All in all it was a great day for training! The weather was gorgeous, the views were awesome and there was even a sign of a moose in Bluegrass Country. It doesn’t get any better than that!