April Fools we're each still ~$3,200 away from our goal:\ but we are closer however, and we are currently holding a raffle to get us closer to our goal! A Doctor Who raffle that is! In case you didn't notice the RaffleCopter widget above, we are raffling off a Doctor Who Quilt, a Sonic Screwdriver, and a Tardis Key Chain! For those of you who do not know what any of those things are, except maybe the quilt, you should still enter. If you win I'm sure you can find a Whovian* some where who would love you forever if you gave them the gift of opening doors with sonic waves... that's what the quilt does.
Anyhow on other new Kathryn and I finally got cycling shoes and clip-less pedals last week. Thanks to our deal with Campus Bicycle we got an incredible deal on both the shoes and the pedals. (We use our own money for gear btw) If you unfamiliar with clip-less pedals that are actually the opposite of what you might think they are. Though they say they're clip-less they are in fact clips which cycling shoes clip into. Further research on the subject has led me to believe that the only reason they are called clip-less pedals is for veteran cyclists to laugh at newbs when they say it wrong. Why would you wanna be clipped in to your bike? Becuase it's hilarious to watch people fall as they fail to twist their feet out. Well that and the fact that you can then pull and push on pedals so that you no longer rely solely on your quads. It might seem like it wouldn't make too much of a difference but our average speed went up 4 mph the on our first ride with them. Which is a lot when you think that before we got our clip-less (clip) pedals it would of taken us 416.6 hours to go from Rhode Island to California but luckily now its only approximatly 297.6 hours. Which then means that if we did not sleep or stop and ate on our bikes as well as pooped while we pedaled it would take us 12 days! Sorry, I was having too much math fun.
Over and Out!
*a person who watches Doctor Who
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