I attended the Fraser Valley Grape Escape again this year in early June. It's a two day 135k bike ride for MS. A colleague from work started arranging a team several years ago and I've now attended three of the past four years. The team and attendees are pretty similar each year. There was about 300 riders and we travel through the Fraser Valley between six wineries and Krauss Berry Farms, which happens to sell wine now as well. They changed the starting point and I was glad they did. Previous years have started at a high point in Langley meaning each day ended on a hill. We started in downtown Langley this year which left us with a downhill at the end of each day.
The weather was perfect and along with the different starting point we attended a new winery which I felt was much better than the one they dropped. The first day is 86k if you do the long route which leaves just 49k for the second day. Since I hadn't got a lot of training in it's always good to have a shorter second day. Unfortunately for me though I showed up 25 minutes late. The map I had showed a start time of 10:00a and since I hadn't attended the dinner the evening before I didn't know it was wrong. It meant I had a lot of catching up to do. It was good to finally catch up to people and they turned out to be from my team. They had a slight injury that was being attended to by the first aid car. With the earlier start and quick ride it also meant that I ended up at Krauss Berry farms earlier than anticipated. Kerry, the kids and the Dukes were planning on meeting me there so all I had time to do was say hello and then I was back on the road.
It was another successful year. I raised $300, our team raised over $8000 and the event itself raised close to $100,000 to support MS.
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