It's been a while since we've visited these chronicles. This is because, well, there's a hell of a lot to do around here in the summer. Mike and I have stayed in the city probably only one out of every four weekends, if that, since May. We have gone to the beach, visited friends and family, celebrated birthdays... It's been a blast, but I'm hoping that things calm down in the fall. Expect more updates on recent events soon, along with some pictures.

Yet another reason that we have been lax in our blogging is that Mike and I recently decided to participate in the MS150 City to Shore ride. It's a 75-mile bike ride from Cherry Hill to Ocean City on Saturday, September 15, and then another 75-mile ride back to Cherry Hill on Sunday, all to raise money for multiple sclerosis. We have been training a bit, but now we need to get down to business by riding almost every day and by doing long rides over the weekends. I feel that we are both in pretty good biking shape at this point--simply because we both have been biking for a while, we continue to bike pretty frequently, and I commute by bike to work every day. However, some really long rides (40-50 miles) are in order, just to ensure that we don't, um, die when the day of the ride comes.

If you're interested (and you're probably not) you can keep tabs on our cycling mileage on our newly created WeEndure web pages:
http://www.weendure.com/user/katie
and
http://www.weendure.com/user/zempf

Mike adds: If you are feeling generous money-wise, you can sponsor us by going here for me or here for Katie.