Team JanDerHan Does It!

Sunday was Janet's big day on the bike - Ryder Hesjedal's Tour de Victoria.  Janet was in the backyard planting our vegetable garden.  When she came out of the pouring rain, this sign was on the front step.  Our nice friends, Ken and Karen dropped it off.  Janet was very touched.

Janet was really nervous about the ride and told us she wished she hadn't signed up.  She also told Phil, but it turns out us doggies are way better listeners and don't toss out some of the pearls of wisdom that Phil does.  She had a stomach ache for the last two days.

At any rate, Sunday rolled around and Her Craziness wasn't about to lose her $99 registration fee.  Janet convinced Meg and Derek to wear the wedding favour socks that Ted and Briana gave away.  She told them that way they could be a team.  The truth is, Janet can be conniving and her thinking was that if she fell off her bike, or crashed or didn't finish the race, Meg and Derek couldn't say "oh...we don't really know her....we're just trying to help this crazy lady finish the race!"

All feet united!

They loaded up Meg's car and off they went:

See the super cute bike jersey Meg bought for Janet?  She also bought her some gloves.

This is at the front of the 50KM chute.  There were 736 riders in the 140KM ride, 401 riders in the 100KM ride and 278 in the 50KM ride.  There was also a crash with some participants in the 140KM ride and some people had broken bones.  One of them was a doctor Meg works with in Squamish..he broke some ribs and punctured a lung!

It took 2 1/2 hours to ride the 50KM.  When they crossed the finish line, their names were announced!  Janet said it was a really festive atmosphere downtown - tons of people, display tents, a beer garden.  Janet was so happy!  She tried hard not to cry.

See Janet's new bike with the ride tag:

Their reward for all this hard work.....sushi, of course!

While Janet was mentally obsessing about the bike ride, she made a new dessert.  Janet's children love a Rhubarb Slice that she has made for about 30 years.  She came across a new recipe for Rhubarb Cheesecake that basically starts out like the slice and then you add a cream cheese mixture and top it off with sour cream.

Jeremy said it was a keeper!

You are probably wondering how we doggies are after this celebration of All Things Janet....we are well!