Yesterday was the “Ride“, and the ride went well! For us, but even more important for the cancer foundation. As all together “we” collected € 718.990, an amazing amount!

Even though the money is the most important thing, you tend to forget that during the ride… well, at least I did… Because we were riding in a peloton with 6000 people, at almost every place the road got smaller (for example every roundabout… and Holland has WAY TO MANY roundabouts, I know now! :), the whole pack bunched up together which often meant a complete stop. We even did almost 10 minutes over 1 km at one time…. And that got kinda annoying after a while… again, I should have known that from last year, as it was more or less the same, but I couldn’t help the frustration coming back every now and then when you were just riding in a nice pace and we had to stop again…

But that was more or less the only little “negative” thing about the day. It was great fun riding in the big pack again, closing gaps with 48km/h between groups, seeing the most amazing bikes (even with banana’s taped to the frame!), the cycling over blocked main roads straight through the city, the applause from the people on the side of the road and the great feeling when realizing everybody is there for the same reason.

The rest of the family did the 50km and seemed to have enjoyed it a lot as well! Good thing! :-) I guess they were not so happy when they had finished their ride and had to wait one and a half hour before me and Bastiaan finished the 120km ride… I didn’t realize at all they were waiting that long… that had never crossed my mind, making me feel very guilty when my mamma told me on the way home. Guess we have to plan things a bit better for next year! For now just my humble apologies…

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