(written on Sunday)
Today Eric and I met up with Bill Kelly, Connor & Jared Ellison, Chris Morris from TDL’s Live Forever Team and Chris Salcone for the Sunday coffee ride. I hadn’t met either Chris before so that was fun. I didn’t get a chance to chat to Chris Morris much, but I got to learn a bit about Chris Salcone and his amazing son Luca. At just 17 months, Luca received a liver transplant from a 7 year old donor. Chris and his wife, Katie took him into the hospital because he had been vomiting all night. After many tests and waiting, six days later he received a liver transplant. He is now home and he and his family are adjusting to their new life. I am looking forward to meeting Luca and his mom, Katie. What an awesome family!
Within the first few miles we saw our friend Kaci running along the bike trail. A few years ago, Kaci’s husband, Kevin had a horrible motorcycle accident and needed many blood transfusions to save his life. Since then they host an annual blood drive at Blood Source. Another awesome family!
After the coffee ride ended Eric and I continued our ride. We were lucky enough to have my parents watch the kids this weekend so we took advantage of some kid free time and took a long ride. We headed towards Sacramento on the bike trail. Once we passed the Nimbus Fish Hatchery we started seeing the TDL running group out on their Sunday run. First we saw Janet who was almost finished with her 5 mile run. She is a very good friend who happened to work at the dialysis clinic I went to for treatment. She and her husband David also have “crewed” for the past two years for CIM. Then we saw Roxie who ran on a TDL relay team last year in CIM. As we were talking with her we heard someone yell, “Team Donate Life,” as they passed us on their bike. It was Lee who is crewing for Team 4 Hope. Then we went a little further and saw Cayden, who is our Team Captain and Billy who ran on a TDL relay team in last years CIM. We then saw our friend Candi who ran her longest run ever…8 miles. Woohoo! Finally we got going on our ride again. A few miles further we saw another TDL runner, Chelsea. She also ran her furthest distance of 16 miles. I was so excited to see so many people out on the trails that support TDL and then to know that some of those people were running further than they ever thought they would. AWESOME!
Eric and I ended up riding 60 miles today. The furthest either of us has ridden. I know we still need to put in many longer rides than that before RAAM, but we are ready! Before we know it we will be doing 100 miles for one ride. Yep, we’re pretty awesome too. :)
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