Ever since I was a kid I've celebrated by birthday with a party of some sort. In the last 4 years that I have been cycling I've been making my friends ride with me before we partake in some sort of eating. This year was no different. With Michael's help, we designed rider bibs for each birthday ride participant.
Each Rider wore the number 044. I wore the number 029. You figure it out.
About 40 of us rode out from San Anselmo to the Cheese Factory, about 64 kilometers with a brief stop at Nicasio where Yoichi pulled in to offer us snacks of cookies and fresh fruit. Michael called it the "Execu-SAG". It was a nice touch.
We rode on to the Cheese Factory where we snacked on salami, cheese, chips and drinks while fighting the yellow-jackets for food. Afterwards we headed back to the house for some well deserved cake.
Since no one can ever decide on whether it should be a chocolate cake or a white cake, and since I have to order my own I decided I'd get both. That way I cover everybody. Heck I even had soy yogurt/ice cream!The best part of the day was when Daniel gave me a very special birthday gift which he insisted I open before I cut the cake. It was the most awesome hat (I love hats, by the way) you could ever get for your birthday...
In case you can't see it, it is a birthday cake hat with candles on top. It is really really cool and I will wear it every birthday from here on out.I figure we rode about 38 miles, times the average of about 30 calories per mile, that's about 1,140 calories burned. A slice of each cake was probably about 500 calories so with ice cream we pretty much canceled out the cakes by riding to the Cheese Factory. See? I ride to eat!
You can view more pictures of the "Tour de Julie Brown's Birthday" on my homepage:
