Monday, August 20, 2007

28

Date: Aug. 20
Mileage: 20.7
August mileage: 707.3
Temperature upon departure: 63

Today's my birthday
Late twenties, and still I feel
Like I'm just starting

35 comments:

  1. Happy B-day Jill.
    28.
    I remember 28 like it was yesterday. Well, 20 years of yesterday's!
    I am surprised that you're back on the bike so soon. Seems like you would have had enough of that for awhile!

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  2. My 27th is this week...and I'm still in school!! I hear you on the just starting :)

    Excellent recent bike adventure!!

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  3. Happy Birthday Jill! Enjoy it! I have 8 years on you. Although I started racing when I was 18, I didn't do my first 24 solo race until I was 26. Now 10 years later, I think I have plenty of ultra racing left in me.

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  4. Happy Birthday!

    I like your haiku, and the dewy berry bush.

    Every day is a new beginning, eh? ;^)

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  5. Happy Birthday Jill. Looking back at 28 seems like a lifetime ago (16 years). I was just starting out...but didn't know it at the time. My wife's birthday is also today, she's starting her 40th year on this planet.

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  6. It's great to see youngsters like yourself enjoying the great outdoors. Happy Birthday!

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  7. Happy Birthday Jill! Been reading your blog for sometime now but have never left a comment. I'm jealous of the beautiful pictures you take on your rides and what you always get to see. Enjoy your birthday!
    From a few miles Southeast :-)

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  8. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu Deinem Geburtstag Jill!!!

    Happy Birthday Jill!!!
    May all you wishes come true...

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  9. Hi Jill, Happy Birthday!! Hope it was a great one. It sounds like you had a wonderful trip. You are so brave. I admire you for your determination and bravery. I love reading things you write.

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  10. Jill,

    Thanks so much for sharing your world with us. It's been great fun reading your adventures and we look forward to reading many more. Happy Birthday : )

    Since my bank account has dried up with the purchase of this new computer, all I can give you at this time is four birthday Haiku's. Enjoy them as you would a can of cold diet pepsi at the end of a 140 mile ride.

    Best regards,
    Dave

    (aka, VW crash Dave, who can now post to your blog because of his expensive new computer)


    ~~~~~

    around the sun, me!
    twenty eight umpteen times, no!
    it's my birthday, yes!

    ~~~~~

    brilliant bits of life
    caught in twenty eight moments
    joyful heart i have

    ~~~~~

    she caught the light
    held it softly in cupped hands
    felt its fuzzy glow

    ~~~~~

    catch me dreaming
    she said, and gave chase to
    catch herself again

    ~~~~~

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  11. To Jill Who Inspires me, Happy Birthday, you deserve a happy one.

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  12. Happy Birthday Jill. Have a great day!!

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  13. Happy Day, Jill! I did read about your awesome adventure. Just didn't have the right amount of time for a real comment. You kicked it!

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  14. Happy Birthday, Jill! Your blog is great, and I wish you all the very best in the coming years. Having been 28 twice now, I can let you know that the best is yet to come! Best wishes, Bilbo.

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  15. Feliç Aniversari Jill!

    Esther

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  16. Happy Birthday - you have so many more miles ahead of you! So was your last trip a "right of passing" or just an adventure!? Enjoy your day!!

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  17. Jill,

    Forgot to mention this comment on my earlier Haiku Posting: LOVE your photo close-up. Wow. You have an eye for photography which is lucky for us ;-)

    Hope this year is filled with all the best

    Dave

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  18. Happy Birthday Jill!

    You've got a cracking blog here - it always make me want to go out and ride. That can only be a positive contribution to the cycling community!

    I too am in my late 20's and feel like things are just getting going; particularly in terms of my bike riding.

    I'll be taking part in my first 24hr enduro this January and have found a certain amount of inspiration for entering in the first place here. So thank you!

    All the best,

    Rob in Scotland

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  19. Happy birthday Jill. Life just keeps getting better doesn't it :-)

    Ride on, great blog.

    Ed

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  20. have a great day! and many more birthdays.

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  21. Happy (now belated) birthday! You don't look a day over 12!

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  22. Happy Bday! Have an extra glass of wine, they go out and ride one mile for each year.

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  23. Happy Day, Jill -- and congratulations on a spectacular achievement last week. What a trip!

    Cynthia

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  24. Happy Big Day! Enjoy them before they really hurt!

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  25. I'm a couple months older, and I can ditto the feeling.

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  26. Happy Birthday Jill! We're both LEO's, so let me hear you roar.

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  27. Happy Birthday and congrats on your trip last week.

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  28. Hey -- Happy Birthday!

    Man, you're a young'un. Just read your entries from the trip. Awe inspiring!

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