Brushy Creek Lake Park ride
Round Rock ISD had Friday and today off so Spencer and I planned a little riding. Friday got sidetracked by room cleaning. Who knew that Spencer and Jacob had been hiding so much behind the dressers and under the bed? Today, however, went right as planned - well except for Spencer forgetting his socks the first time we left the house. We started at Brushy Creek Lake Park with
a plan to do two laps up Parmer to FM 2243, down County Road 175 to Sam Bass Road, Great Oaks back to the trail that goes into the park. Google calls it 16.8 miles each lap, plus we did about 1/2 mile of extra riding in the park on the first lap. Elapsed time including stops 3:16:15, for an average speed of 10.4 MPH. We spent at least 10 minutes at stops - Spencer is not yet comfortable drinking while riding, so we stopped 4 times each lap, including almost six minutes reloading Gatorade in the park at the end of the first lap - so our average rolling speed is over 11.
As expected, Spencer did great. His bike handling was excellent, including an excellent job of navigating through some dumped asphalt on the shoulder that including chunks as big a 6 inches by a foot. I am unbelievably pleased with his riding and willingness to attack his goal of riding the 45 miles of the LIVESTRONG Challenge in just 13 days. We did another drop of postcards through the neighborhood and got $9.78 in cash plus $50 online, so the fundraising is going well also. We’ll do one more email blast this week to see what we can get with a little deadline pressure on donations.
Please donate to the Lance Armstrong Foundation and support 8 year old Spencer and his 45 mile bicycle ride to fight cancer.