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| MAAG WHEELS CT's Top Team Biking to Beat Multiple Sclerosis |
Inner Voice: (tapping on shoulder & gently whispering) Tap, tap, tap. Billy, you have to wake up. It's time to go biking now. Billy the Biker: (in a groggy state of tired confusion) Mmmmpphh. Huh? What? Biking? Now? I'm sleeping. Leave me alone. Inner Voice: (joyfully, playfully; opening the blinds) Let's go Billy. It's March! Which means it's Biking Season! Isn't that wonderful? Billy: (whining, mumbling, pulling the covers over his head) But there's still snow on the ground. Inner Voice: (concerned) But you've been sleeping all winter. Your body has gotten grossly out of shape. You haven't ridden a bike since last year's MS Bike Tour. Billy: (trying to press the pillow against his ears) I'll ride when Spring comes. Inner Voice: (happily; opening the windows) That's in two weeks! And lucky for you, so is our first Saturday Morning Training Ride for this year! You remember how much FUN FUN FUN those are, don't you? We'll be having our FIRST SATURDAY MORNING TRAINING RIDE on MARCH 19 at 9:00 AM out of GRIFFIN CENTER in WINDSOR. We'll be riding 10 & 25-mile routes. So you have to get up and get ready. Here, I've come up with this checklist to make it easier for you: -Make sure your biking clothes are washed from last June. -Get your WARM clothing ready since it'll still be chilly the first few times we go out. -Take your bike to your favorite bike shop and have them tune it up as soon as you can because they'll be booking up pretty fast as soon as Spring comes. -Check all your gear like shoes, jerseys, helmet, bike rack, air pump, and so on to ensure they still fit, work, etc. -Replace your old water bottles with new ones so that you don't end up drinking out of moldy plastic the whole season. -Start stocking up on your biking victuals...Cliff Bars, Gatorade, and pretzels are what you lived on last year. [The Inner Voice gets to the end of his check-list, when all of a sudden Billy bounds across the room, tosses his Inner Voice out the open window, slams it shut, closes the blinds, throws himself back into bed, and shuts his eyes, only to hear his Inner Voice chuckling on the pillow right next to him.] Inner Voice (chuckling) You're grumpy when you wake up, aren't you? |