Thank YOU for your prayers and support for Charissa and Eric as they completed their 50 Mile Ride! Click on that ride link and you can get a sense of what the day was like. Another biker with a ride along camera has edited the 3-4 hour event down to less than 3 minutes. The challenges of this training season included a LOT of travel this summer, Charissa working more hours as well as senior year school load, and the theft of Eric’s bike while we were in Colorado. The benefits, though, of time spent together, time spent with friends (another FamilyLife father/son team trained and rode with them this year) as well as a great fitness motivator outweighed the challenges. It is hard to imagine that if all goes as planned, Charissa will be off to college when the ride comes around again next year! Pray for us as we try to make Charissa’s senior year special, while not getting overly sentimental. 
