I have to say that I’m real proud of my niece, Erica, mother of three, and looking not much older than her own soon-to-be-teenaged daughter, to have taken part in this 101 kilometer Mountain Bicycle Race in Ronda, Spain where her husband is stationed in the Navy.You can see the crowd here, and according to Erica, she may have been one of only about a dozen women to participate. Grueling? She said it was the hardest thing she’d ever done; worse than childbirth.
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