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Linda wanted to hit Nevada for her birthday weekend.  Mesquite is about 4 hours away, so we jumped in the car.  We took our bikes too. Mesquite is pretty much an island of green in the middle of the desert. There are about 4 casinos, a spa and all that kind of stuff.  It gets very hot during the day in the summer – about 110 most days. We rode our bikes early in the morning. The two rides were took are here and here. In the last 30 minutes before heading home, I was dealt 2 three-of-a-kind hands in 3 card poker. That just about paid for the whole trip!

Linda and I rode the MS-150 this past weekend. The MS Society puts on a very nice event and raised over a million dollars for research. We rode about 77 miles on Saturday and around 72 on Sunday. We saw lots of old friends and made several new ones.

You can see the route for both days combined here

150 miles on back to back days takes some real work. The first day went pretty well, we spent about 4 hours and 43 minutes riding. On Sunday there’s a long climb up to Hardware Ranch so our average speed was a little little lower. Sunday’s total riding time was 4:47.

This was our last weekend before we ride our bikes in the Utah MS-150 ride next weekend.

Saturday, we went to spin class in the morning for an hour and then hit the road for a 35 mile flat ride.  Today (Sunday) we started in Foothills and headed east up Emigration Canyon. Then west to downtown and out to the airport. We went south a little bit from there and back to Foothills. About 48 miles.

Next weekend we’ll do 75 miles on Saturday and then another 75 on Sunday.  This will be our second year doing the MS-150.