Ranch residents Ride 2 Recovery

Lakewood Ranch resident Bob Delaney, with the help of his wife, Billie, a marathon runner, spent weeks training for a Ride 2 Recovery bicycle event to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

“Billie is making me ride all over Lakewood Ranch,” Delaney joked beforehand. “I’m sore in places I never knew I had.”

The eight-day, 500-mile ride began at 8:47 a.m. Sept. 11, at Liberty State Park. From there, the riders pedaled to Shanksville, Pa., the site of the United 93 crash, and finally to the Pentagon Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Delaney completed the ride with soldiers in the Wounded Warrior Project.