Deidra from Louisiana, Sandy and I have ridden for two weeks together on and off. Here we pose for lunch with Lake Ontario behind us in Watertown, NY. Deidra, a retired nurse who has just become eligible for Medicare, was a strong rider on the flat terrain when she arrived and has become a strong hill climber in the past few days as we are averaging 3,000 feet of climbs each day. Sandy and I are not quite her age but are about the avewrage age for the Cycle Americas Coast to Coasters as we have become known. Our oldest rider is 69 and we have some riders in their early fifties. Injuries have taken another rider this past week when two ran together on a turn and one broke her collar bone and had to return home. Sandy and I have ridden together for several years and we know each others moves on the bicycle yet we still talk a lot as we enter turns, pass each other, and draft behind one another. For example, on turns he knows I take the wide turn and he stays closer to the curb, or we follow one another into a curve. The two riders who crashed had not ridden together. Our "Coasters" number less than 35 now after starting in high 40's.
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