Friday 's activity includes travelling to Duluth via bus and camping at Spirit Mountain overlooking Duluth and Lake Superior. The real fun begins Saturday with a 70 mile ride to Hinckley, most of which occurs on the Willard Munger State Trail. This event is a fundraiser, not a race. Many prospective team members tend to forget this simple fact and continue to amaze us with reasons they just can't do it. Over 3000 people participate, ranging from a few years to scores of years in age.
Some ride bikes older than half the riders while others think a year old bike is obsolete.
Some of us ride bike all year while many start thinking about it when the weather warms up in May, and a few even consider their training ride Saturday and the real ride Sunday. We fund raise as a team and throw everything into the same pot. The more each individual can raise however, the less challenge our team fundraising coordinator Warren Kalsow has. If necessary though, he can handle raising a few extra dollars. We're always tickled when a corporation will help us out with pledges or donation of items such as team jerseys.