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via Change Your Life. Ride A Bike! by Adrienne Johnson on 10/29/09
Aiko here is making the blog rounds this week, and one look at her will tell you why- she is damn cute!
Cute, though, is just the door to this wonderful story. Aiko is 84 and rides the 150 miles of the 2 day City to Shore MS ride in New Jersey. She has done this every year for over 20 years. She rides a single speed bike, she wears the clothes she always wears (including her heels) and she rides the race with her family (including great-grandchildren!!) as a team.
Aiko is a remarkable woman, to be sure. More than that, though, she is the benchmark of what we should all strive for. She is a woman without boundaries. With complete style, being only herself, she completes tasks that most of us think of as monumental but really only require a different point of view to be manageable. Through a simple, determined act, Aiko proves that the only thing that holds us back is our own, self imposed mental limitations.
Reading her story makes me want to ride. It makes me want to be better as a person. It also makes me want to start a purse and heels group to do some charity riding! Who wants to join me?
(huge thanks to "the skepticaloptimist" for the pictures!!!)
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