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Pedal Power

A vacation-day bike ride becomes a reminder that simple outdoor adventures can restore energy and create meaningful family memories.

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Yesterday, I took a vacation day to recover from our not-so-annual corporate meeting here at our Medina, Ohio headquarters.

Like all mid-week vacation days, this one still entailed some non-vacation activities, like getting my high-schooler to the bus stop across town (at 6:30 a.m.), running the two middle-schooler’s through their morning routine and, when it was all done, celebrating with breakfast at a local restaurant with my wife and four-year-old twins.

While we watched our twin girls get scolded by some well-meaning grandma for not sharing enough trains at the train table, we tried to decompress from what had already been a busy week. As we sipped our coffee and chatted, the conversation inevitably turned to what we were going to do with the rest of our precious vacation day.