zondag 17 juli 2011

Leontien's ladies ride


Edsmaida, Corrie & Gracienne before we started
Last sunday, june 26, we started in Bergschenhoek to bike to the start at Nesselande. Gracienne came from Zoetermeer on het bike. She was very brave because she already had her first 10K before we drove to the start to bike 35K. Edsmaida had her bike in the back of het car. So with the three of us, we started to bike to the start, 10 K in appr. 40 min... 
All together, every year a different group...
This is the start.... after we collected our t-shirt, put it on and got our yoghurt as a in between breakfast...
At the start it was very crowded. Appr. 6000 ladies wanted to start.... the first girl who rode 65K were already gone. We were in the last batch to start. And still there were a lot of girls.
on my bike, and look how many ladies there are behind me!
 We got ride with a nice temperature, but it was very crowded. Over the total route we stopped several times, to cross very busy streets, small bicicle roads that slowed us down and several other points. We sometimes walked a bit because that was easier than biking....
Lunch with Annette, Saskia & Corrie (and Edsmaida & Gracienne across)
Half way we had some lunch and something to drink. This was a little disappointing. In the earlier years we got in the first stop a nice cup of coffee and a dilicious cupcake and a very good sandwich with an icecream for lunch at the second stop.
This year there was only one stop, that was our lunch with a cheeseroll, krentenbol (kind of an coffeeroll), eierkoek and a sultana cracker. So we were a little disappointed.

After our lunch we got back on our bike and biked the last bit.
A very happy day, with a lot of grazy, nice, loving ladies on a bike in the same bio t-shirt. I had a lot of fun, with the girls.... Thanks girls ! Next year we do it again...

With love, Corrie