Box of Frogs Adventure
Back in April, I signed up for the 60 mile Box of Frogs bike ride (there was also a 100 mile route). I knew the ride would be a huge challenge as I have only been on one 60 mile ride ever before (and that was back in 2012) and the longest ride I've done so far this year was 35 miles (actually made up of two rides with an hour break after 20 miles). Uh, now that I look at those stats I realize that it was a bit more than crazy for me to sign up for the Box of Frogs . What was I thinking? Well, I guess I wasn't really thinking. I just saw the bike ride on Facebook and was intrigued by the fact that the ride was multi-surface (tar, paved bike trails, river bottoms trails, gravel and dirt) and was set up so that the riders all end at about the same time. I like that end at the same time idea and I just felt like I had to sign up for the ride. 60 miles seemed reasonable to me at that moment in time. "I can do this!" I thought. So, without thinking much about wheth...