American Diabetes Tour de Cure Houston

I had the great pleasure in taking part in planning the 1st ever Tour de Cure Houston this past weekend. My bestie from HS Lisa, has been working with the ADA for a few years now and had been heading up the walk. Last year she decided that she wanted to start biking and do the MS 150 with me. I was more than happy to have her join in on the fun.
Then bright and early one morning on the way to a training ride, she said oh by the way I have been lobbying for the Tour to come to Houston and I think we are getting it. You are on the committee. I said of course! After that I hadnt really heard anything about it so I figured they didnt get it. I was wrong! And I was still on the committee.
It took a ton of hard work, and we had the best committee EVER! Bikers are some pretty kick ass people and we all work towards the same thing. Making an event better than the last one.
I can not thank all my volunteers and the people who rode in the ride enough! We ended up with 1000+ riders and raised over $200K! Pretty cool for a 1st time bike ride.
Now, saying that it went off with out anything wrong, that would be too easy.
I was up at 3:30 am. Not a great start. We all KNOW I am NOT a morning person.
At 6:45 am I get a call from a rest stop volunteer asking about rest stop supplies. I told him the truck left an hour ago. Come to find out the truck is broken down 1/2 a mile away. I have 1000 riders about to head out, and rest stops with no supplies. Panic. We sent everyone we could out. Not really sure how well it went, but it went.
I lost my car keys, my cell phone, my walkie talkie and my camera. All were found.
Our ice truck never showed up. We had to get a new one.
Trash people = no show.
The truck that broke down, they never sent us one to replace that, so we had no truck to move ALL of our supplies back to Houston after the ride. Lucky me, I got to go to U-Haul and rent a 26 ft truck... and then drive it back to the site to load.

All in all the bikers were happy, and that is the main part. Committee and staff learned a lot of what to do for next year, and I cant wait to do it all over again!

And hopefully I will have another wonderful margarita waiting for me with great company next year too! It really helped and made my stress level drop to a point where I didnt want to cry as much.
Then I got home and found grandmother on the couch. Stress level went out the door.
Thank god for exhaustion.