I started cycling in the mid-1970's with a Fuji Finest steel frame with some low-end Campy components that I got from the sporting goods store where I was working. When I first met Cyndy a few years later in Bemidji, Minnesota, we started doing some cycling together and we have continued to ride over the years. When we moved to Seattle to do my Post-Doc research at the University of Washington in 1982 we started riding seriously. 

We joined a team and got our Category-4 road and track racing licenses. Cyndy placed better in the women's division than I did in the men's, she placed well state-wide competitions for both road and track racing. We rode competitively for a couple of years, then I started teaching and stopped racing. But we still got out, we got a "Bugger" trailer for my road bike and did rides with Patrick when he was very young. 

We have been riding, but infrequently, during my years at HSC. We now have road and mountain bikes for the family as well as a tandem. Our garage sometimes looks like a used bike shop with six bikes sitting around or hanging on the walls. We have done several longer rides as a family including the Seagull Century twice with Cyndy on her road bike and Patrick on the back of our tandem.

This year we got out on the Seagull Century again, but this time, Patrick wanted to ride his own road bike. So we did our first family century on our own bikes. This was a great excuse to give my old Trek carbon/Dura Ace bike to Pat and get myself (and Cyndy) a couple of new carbon road frames, which we love.

These days, at a number of these big sporting events, both runs, triathlons and bike rides, they often have professional photographers that take pictures of folks involved in the event. You can then get copies of the photos online after the event. The good thing about professional photographers is that, even if you are not that good of a rider, they make you look like one.... Here are a couple of photos of me and Patrick this year at the Seagull Century (Cyndy went, but we did not get any photos of her).

Seagull Century 2004

Here Cyndy and I are in 2006 after doing a great downhill run on the mountain bikes in Virginia. It was called the Virginia Creeper trail, which is a very popular ride. They load a group of mountain bikes on trailers and haul bikes and riders up the mountain, then it is a long, fast ride downhill, it was muddy, but great fun.