Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Tour de Cure

Cannon has been itching to go biking through the canyons here ever since we moved to the mouth of Sardine Canyon. Personally, I don't understand the draw of biking somewhere so STEEP and UPHILL. Plus, you use the same roads as the crazy auto drivers. And eventually, you have to go back DOWNHILL. Yikes.

Well, he finally found some time over the last two months to do some day-time bike training. Didn't do as much canyon biking as he probably would have liked, but he got into good enough shape to ride in the Tour de Cure on Saturday. It was 60 miles (although they mistakenly added almost 10 more), and orginated and ended in Brigham City. Up until that day, the farthest he had biked was 40 miles. That was Thursday. Needless to say, he was tuckered out by the time he finished!


I'm proud of him. He's on the lookout for more races to be involved in. Maybe a triathelon or something.


Here he is in his ATK (work) team jersey.

10 comments:

Alona said...

Yay for Cannon! That's quite a ride!

Laura said...

Way to go Cannon! That is very impressive. I've been through those canyons many times. Sometimes it's crazy in a car, let alone in a bike. :)

Jackie said...

Congrats Cannon! What an accomplishment! I can't make it around the block on a bike. :-)

Rynell said...

That is great! What an awesome accomplishment.

Emily said...

Impressive!

Heidi said...

Wow, Cannon, I'm impressed! That's great! Maybe Tyler will join you some day!

Amber said...

Good for Cannon! He should totally do a triathlon. I'm doing the Jordanelle in August. Tell him to sign up!

Jen-ben said...

awesome!!! Good job!

Idaho Bushmans said...

Thats cool. My dad is a bug biker in centerville and knows about a lot races if you want me to ask. hes been doing it for years. very cool. the big one is logan to jacksonhole in september.

Liz said...

Go Cannon! That's really awesome! We bought mountain bikes not long ago and I'm sure Mike would love to go riding with Cannon. I'll pass on the word. :-)