This weekend was a whirlwind of activity. It all started last weekend, when Brian and I biked up to Wachusett Mountain for the kids fest. Our families met us up there. When we were done filling up on all the free junk food, I went up to the mountain peak. My wife and kids met me at the top, then we all drove home. Monday through Wednesday I did training rides with various team mates, in preparation for the Rodman Ride on Saturday.

On Saturday, Ken and I carpooled to Foxborough, leaving my house at 5:45 AM, on the bikes and moving at 7. The weather was fantastic and the route was mostly flat. The Staples Soul team finished our 100 miles around 3:30 pm (I also hit 7,000 miles on my odometer during the ride!). We managed to raise over $4,000 for the Mazie Foundation, and our matching shirts attracted a lot of attention and hopefully a lot of awareness. At the end of the ride I had a cheeseburger, hot dog and a beer, then went over to the health club to get cleaned up. We drove from there into Boston, and made it to the Boston Billiard Club for Bill’s bachelor party at 7:30pm. We had some fun trying to play pool, had a beer and lots of coffee. Great food too. We left around 10:30 and I got home by 12:30. Erica managed to convince our friend Gordon to babysit the kids while she went to my other biking buddy Tom’s big 4-0 party. At the end of the night we were both wiped out.

I woke up at 6am to prepare for my niece and nephew to visit. We all went to church, then came back, had lunch, and went to the Marlborough Heritage Festival. After Erica’s sister left with her kids, we got packed up and went over to Sanjay and Divya’s house for playtime, beer, pizza, beer, movie and cake.

I woke up this morning at a leisurely 6:30am. I helped get the kids ready for school, then got back on my bike and made, what I hope will be, my daily winter route to work.