![]() ![]() ![]() Just like with the turtle and the hare, slow and consistent wins over fast but sporadic.” “Even though I was not the fastest competitor, I did attend and complete the majority of that year's races. In 2002, she placed second in the Eastern Fat Tire Association Senior Division. ![]() In her fifties, Jane started mountain biking and racing. She enjoyed hiking and biking, and climbed twenty of the forty 4,000-foot mountains in New England. After two years of living off-the-grid, they lived a self-sufficient lifestyle on a five-acre “gentleman's” farm.īefore moving to Sarasota, Florida, she lived in Hampstead, New Hampshire for twenty-four years, where she raised two children, was a soccer and Odyssey of the Mind coach, and received the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Volunteer of the Year Award in 1996. In 1975, she and her husband Dennis lived in a tent in Winchendon, Massachusetts, for six months (until December) while they built a log cabin. Upon graduation from college, she worked as a travel guide in Madrid, Spain, and cried at her first bullfight. Since retiring in 2011, she has visited sixteen countries by foot and by bicycle and written two books about her wanderings. Blanchard is the author of the award-winning "Woman on Her Way" series. ![]()
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