tararat
07-08-2008, 08:24 PM
Bike Against the Odds is coming up a little earlier than usual this year, so I wanted to get the word out and encourage everyone to register and get ready for an amazing ride.
If you don't know about this ride already, it's a beautiful tour through the Oakland/East Bay Hills that has some very challenging routes. Now in its 6th year, it primarily benefits the Breast cancer Fund, an organization that works to identify and prevent environmental causes of breast cancer.
Here is more info and the place to register:
http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site/pp.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=1303479
I have to tell you, when I started working with this ride I wasn't a parent, and my appreciation for what they do was initially limited to thinking that if they work against cancer, it must be good. But since becoming a mom, I've had to battle the daily challenges of trying to raise my kids in a healthy environment without lead/BPA/phalates/mercury - all without driving my family crazy by eating nothing but locally grown organic flax seed and playing with nothing but unpainted blocks carved by hand. I'm a very educated person, and I can't keep it all straight - when my daughter was born I bought her the best bottles, only to discover by the time was son was born (thanks to work done by the Breast Cancer Fund, in part) that they contain dangerous levels of an estrogenic chemical that was first used as hormone replacement therapy prior to DES. AND that it's know to leach into the formula. If I feel overwhelmed, how can parents much less equipped to process this kind of information make healthy choices for their families? It shouldn't be this way - it doesn't have to be this way -and the Breast Cancer Fund is working to make companies and governments change the way they operate.
BUT - it's also just a really great ride! :)
Thanks!
Tara Runyan
If you don't know about this ride already, it's a beautiful tour through the Oakland/East Bay Hills that has some very challenging routes. Now in its 6th year, it primarily benefits the Breast cancer Fund, an organization that works to identify and prevent environmental causes of breast cancer.
Here is more info and the place to register:
http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site/pp.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=1303479
I have to tell you, when I started working with this ride I wasn't a parent, and my appreciation for what they do was initially limited to thinking that if they work against cancer, it must be good. But since becoming a mom, I've had to battle the daily challenges of trying to raise my kids in a healthy environment without lead/BPA/phalates/mercury - all without driving my family crazy by eating nothing but locally grown organic flax seed and playing with nothing but unpainted blocks carved by hand. I'm a very educated person, and I can't keep it all straight - when my daughter was born I bought her the best bottles, only to discover by the time was son was born (thanks to work done by the Breast Cancer Fund, in part) that they contain dangerous levels of an estrogenic chemical that was first used as hormone replacement therapy prior to DES. AND that it's know to leach into the formula. If I feel overwhelmed, how can parents much less equipped to process this kind of information make healthy choices for their families? It shouldn't be this way - it doesn't have to be this way -and the Breast Cancer Fund is working to make companies and governments change the way they operate.
BUT - it's also just a really great ride! :)
Thanks!
Tara Runyan