The longest ride

This was the longest ride, not in history or anything like that, but it was a very long ride. For me, it would be a non-existant ride but for my oldest daughter, Jenny, it was just a very long ride. And on a bicycle no less. 100 MILES. In ONE day. Last weekend Jenny participated in Oklahoma's LandRun 100 in Stillwater. If you remember your history, this was one of the locations of the beginning of the famous Land Rush of 1889. So this "run" is appropriately named LandRun 100. This race goes from Stillwater to Guthrie and back. This year, we brought a support team for Jenny, which we should have been doing all along. The thoughtful mother that I am just didn't think of it before. It took Jenny's Aunt Detra, to spearhead all of us going. We brought food, drink, snacks like we thought we would never eat again. The race started at 8 with a break at Guthrie and then ended whenever the rider gets back to Stillwater. So now, just a few of the many pictures taken during the race.

Here we all are supporting Jenny just before the race is set to begin. As you can see it was pretty cold with the boys and Gary forgetting their coats. And it looks like Isaiah is getting some instructions on the app to be able to follow along on the phone with Jenny's progress.

And this is only a very small idea of how many people were in this race. I'm not sure of the number but it has been estimated that around 1400 bikers started the race. After the bikers started, we all got in our cars and headed toward Guthrie. Jenny would be there in about three hours.

 And here she comes....

We had a tent set up next to her team tent (which at the time we didn't know we had done that.) with her food all ready and some for us. The kids were all excited. The team tent did a little bit of maintenance on her bike while she ate. Just hung her bike on the bar and they went to work. So cool. 

 Such a short stop and then she was ready to finish this race.

and there she goes back to Stillwater to finish this 100 MILE RACE! Man am I tired.