Notes from around Saturday's Banner-University Medicine 39th El Tour de Tucson.
It all started with a Spiderman bike for Izek Saiz. The 10-year-old, who rode in the 32-miler Saturday at the Banner-University Medicine 39th El Tour de Tucson, would take short rides around his neighborhood. Once he tried taking a much longer ride, the bike's chain broke and he needed something a little nicer.
Saiz trained by taking spin classes and riding the Loop. Saturday, he posted a time of 3 hours, 32 minutes and 53.3 seconds.Watch that tire pressure The two have been married for four months. Soto attended her first bike race last month in Albuquerque. When Rodriquez, who is changing his last name soon to Soto — a surprise to Soto, who thought it was"beautiful" — saw the signs, he smiled from ear to ear. He finished in a time of 2:02:09.3.
Yet, at the same time they both said that the best part of the day was,"Seeing and passing the finish line — and getting a medal."Mother-daughter connection
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