How it all started....<--- This is us the original group of ALC cycling wannabe's. We met on several different training rides through the 2002-2003 training season. (L to R: Jen, Vilma, Me, Patrick, Kathleen, Gary, Nancy and Tammy- we're missing Cami, Emily and Rowdy)
We all met as newbie riders doing our first ALC ride that year . After figuring out that we all rode at about the same pace, we decided that we should all hang out and be a new riding group. That's how it starts... you tell two friends, they tell two friends and so on and so on and so on.
I look at this picture from Day Zero, ALC 2 and remember how naive we were! We had no idea that this cult called AIDS Lifecycle would take up our whole lives and provide us with some of the best friends anyone could ask for. Your ALC friends see you at your worst and at your best. They celebrate and cry with you, they laugh at you, they bitch at you but most of all they accept you for who you are and are amazed at all that you (we ) can become!
Every year I look forward to Day Zero- that original little group has gotten so big, and even though some of us do not ride anymore, we always support the cause- be it by making a donation or volunteering on Day Zero.
It's here that I thank that original little group of riding friends that got me through ALC 2: Vilma, Jen, Tammy, Patrick, Gary, Nancy, Kathleen, Cami, Emily & Rowdy.
You made my first ride worth coming back to ride year after year!
