This is the weekend of the MS-150 ride from Houston to Austin. Each year up to 13,000 cyclists participate in this 2-day bike ride / fundraiser for multiple sclerosis. For 10 years, several friends of mine have done the ride.
I don’t ride, but I am proud to be a sherpa. 🙂 In the last few years, Irene has joined us and we are co-sherpa’s for friends Lori and Laura, and until the last 2 years Doray, too.
We have an annual ritual: we take off the afternoon the Friday before the ride, then everyone piles into one car with the bikes. We drive from Austin to Houston. Check into the hotel. Stop by the St. David’s team hospitality suite. Enjoy a lovely beverage. Go to dinner at Lomonte’s (delicious!). Then back to the hotel.
Up the next morning. Get the bikes and riders ready. Schlep the riders’ overnight gear to the trailer. Take the riders to their start and bid them adieu.
Then I drive back to Austin and am home Saturday morning before 10 AM.
The bike riders, however, get home Sunday evening.
I think I have the better deal. 🙂
Either way its a fun thing to do with friends…and it’s for a good cause.
Sheila365 