Bike Against the Odds 2008 coming up

[tararat]

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...dPaE&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

[cindysue]

The lunachix have a fundraising team for this ride and would love for TE gals and guys to join us.

Sign up for our team

and/or join our training rides:

July 12th: 8:00am roll time - Meet at Rockridge BART for 40 miles in the East Bay Hills (Bears)

July 17th: The Cycology of Cycling CLINIC in Berkeley - Learn Sports Psychology techniques that can help you achieve your cycling goals!

July 19th: Meet at Rockridge BART for 50 miles in the East Bay Hills (Pinehurst)

July 26th: Meet at Woodside Town Center for 60 miles around the Peninsula

August 2nd: 8:30am: Meet at Saratoga City Hall for a 70 mile ride though the South Bay and Santa Cruz. This will be a challenging (6500' + climbing) ride up Montebello, Redwood Gulch, and up through the Santa Cruz Mountains. Bring your camera!. p.s. I'm leading this one

August 9th: Meet in Fairfax for an 80 mile ride through Marin

August 16th: Meet at Canada and Hwy 92 for a 50 mile taper ride around the Peninsula

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