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| 8/19/2008 8:58:00 AM | Email this article • Print this article |
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| Kay and Michael Francavilla feel it is “divine intervention” that they met during last year’s ‘Rollin’ to the River’ bicycle ride. |
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A ride to remember
Stephanie Ludwig
Reporter
When Michael and Kay Francavilla rode in the Blair Bike Club's Rollin' to the River event last weekend, they each rode their own bike.
A tandem bicycle may have been more appropriate.
Michael and Kay met at the 2007 Rollin' to the River event. A little less than a year later, the two rode in the event again as a married couple.
Both avid bicyclists, Michael and Kay had both participated in various biking races, though the only one they had in common was the Omaha Corporate Cup. They each entered the 2007 Rollin' to the River event as last-minute participants.
"Neither one of us was supposed to be there. He had plans to do another bike ride and I was not going to do it," Kay said.
The two strangers met over the event's lunch break and rode most of the way back to Blair together. By the end of the race, the two Omaha residents had exchanged e-mail addresses.
A relationship blossomed quickly afterward, when Kay asked Michael to help her build a fence for her new puppy.
"We met Sept. 8, he asked me to marry him on Feb. 8, and then we got married on April 19," Kay said. "It just happened so fast."
Kay said she and Michael knew they had to do the Rollin' to the River event again, even though it was held earlier than last year, since it was an anniversary of sorts for them.
This is the second marriage for both, and the couple has a combined seven children between them, though none live at home with the two. Kay said she and Michael enjoy spending time with their new blended family, but biking is their common love.
"It's the passion that brought us together," she said. "I don't know how else we would have met. It was divine intervention."
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