The Landscapers are in Training!

Lake Tahoe Century Ride

  • Thanks

    Thank you all for your generous support in 2008. With your help we have raised over $14,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!

  • The Double Challenge…

    In May 2008, Wendy Andringa and Marty Barry did their first century ride...thats a 100 mile bike ride... in Lake Tahoe! We joined forces with "Team in Training" for training and fundraising support as we took on the challenge of helping find a cure for blood cancer. We are both individuals that have had cancer touch our lives, in different ways, and are now doing something to help make a difference. We pledged to raise $5,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and far exceeded that goal, and completed the century ride up and down the hills of Lake Tahoe! Your support helped us meet both challenges! Until our next century ride with Team in Training - we want to say that our generosity is and was greatly appreciated! This site was originally intended as a venue for Wendy and Marty to post about our trials, pains, and successes riding for our team, the Landscapers. We’re still riding for our team, just not fund-raising this year. So, until we push again to raise money for cancer we’ll update posts periodically with events that inspired this page, and that will project this page into our futures.
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Century II … Babylon to Montauk

Posted by beingreen on June 24, 2008

Landscapers can’t stop riding! Last weekend Marty and I went for our second 100 mile ride in June! We rode with a group of TNT riders to Montauk, at the tip of Long Island, from Babylon. The route through the Hamptons was beautiful, filled with the scent of those electric pink roses and honeysuckle on the roadsides. And it was flat flat flat! Both Marty and I actually found it to be more difficult than the ride in Tahoe, maybe because we were both out drinking too much the week before, or maybe because the route was so flat we didn’t get enough variety in our posture… that makes for seven hours of sitting in the saddle … Landscapers behinds say ouch!

OK, enough about the ride… what I really want to post about is the victory dinner. Marty’s family met the Landscapers in Montauk and MJ Barry II treated us to a fabulous dinner of champagne, lobster, and key lime pie at a wonderful restaurant overlooking the water. Perfect way to end the day and get over the crazy mix of road food we had eaten on the ride. Awesome dinner.

Wait, it gets better! The following morning we got back on our bikes and went to the beach for a swim!!! This was a brisk swim, but really got the heart pumping. Rough surf, as skies were a bit stormy. Here’s the lifeguard…

Next ride the Landscapers are looking forward to is the SeaCoast ride in September!

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