AIDS Life cycle ride

[Melody]

*\o/* Cheers for Trek! *\o/*
*\o/* Cheers for BG! *\o/*
*\o/* Cheers for Annerol! *\o/*

*\o/* Cheers for EVERYONE who is doing this! *\o/*

You are ALL awesome

Mel

[CycleGiant3]

I think what you are doing is awesome. One of the main reasons I wanted to get into cycling was to participate in the AIDS and Cancer cycles. I am on the east coast and unfortunatly I have not been able to find any rides. I am continuing to look though! I will follow along on the web, I think it is so exciting! Good luck and have a great time.

[Trek420]

thanks Giant! the support and good wishes mean a lot.

I think there was a Florida AIDS ride, don't know if it still exists, there are several on the East Coast, a family friend in his 70's does one in Maryland each year or....fly out here and ride with us!

[spazzdog]

Trek420 dahling,

In case I don't get to chat before you go Good Luck!!!! I'm proud to have contributed to your training. You'll do great!

I've been busy at my part-time gig, but am another step closer to my super secret possibly coolest job in the world. I will let you know Deets, even if it means sending a telegram to the ride

Lots of hugs and kisses and good tunes to play in your head as you ride.

spazz

[Trek420]

Tunes in my head? Annerol, Bike goddess, watch out! I sing on hills and it's whatever comes to mind so can be a little odd.

[spazzdog]

Row row row your boat, gently....

99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer...

I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener...

Feelings... (sorry)

spazz - just trying to help

[slinkedog]

I hope you have a wonderful ride, Trek. My husband did the Alaska AIDS ride in 2001 with a group from our church and had a really wonderful experience.

I hope you will ride with us on Memorial day. It would be great to meet you in person and give you a proper send off... meaning good food and some sort of *beverage.*

[Trek420]

CycleGiant3 "I think what you are doing is awesome. One of the main reasons I wanted to get into cycling was to participate in the AIDS and Cancer cycles. I am on the east coast and unfortunatly I have not been able to find any rides. I am continuing to look though! I will follow along on the web, I think it is so exciting! Good luck and have a great time."

well folks, y'all can congratulate me when I finish ;-)

I surprised myself last year, although I bonked on day 3 (not fun) the rest of the ride i did well. My goal was then and is now to do every mile but last year Day one was the longest ride I'd ever done, day was 2 my first century (what was I thinking?) and there are two of these on the ride....oddly I found that after day 3 I just felt stronger each and every day. I think that's the spirit on this ride.

I've trained more this year, I'm a lot lighter, I hope to do well, just eat, drink, ride safely.

cyclegiant, I found http://www.thesmartride.org/ which is in Florida, found that ride and lots more on www.thegoodcyclist.org which is a site that lists charity bike rides in every state and lots of countries too, you go girrl...or come out here and ride with us.

[CycleGiant3]

Thank so much Trek for looking into that for me!! I am going to register for that ride. It is only a 3-4 hours drive for me. After that, i will fly and ride with all of you for the next ride.

[DeniseGoldberg]

...www.thegoodcyclist.org which is a site that lists charity bike rides in every state and lots of countries too, you go girrl...or come out here and ride with us.

The url in the message above wasn't quite right - I'm assuming that http://www.goodcyclist.org/ is the site that you mean, right?

--- Denise

[Trek420]

oops, yep, good catch, just testing if you'd catch that...yeah right.

[Bike Goddess]

Thanks for all the songs! I'm sure we'll need them along the way to keep our spirits up when the going gets tough!

BTW- I have suggested we do a Ride of Silence for an hour on one of the days when we have a shorter ride. Can you imagine 2000 cyclists riding through town in utter silence? I'll let you all know at the end if it happens and what it was like!

Between TREK and me we've raised over $10,000!

Be sure to look for pictures of the ride as we wind our way down the coast and inland areas of California with each of you behind us!

[Trek420]

Bike Goddess posts "Between TREK and me we've raised over $10,000! "

don't be modest BG, that's mostly you. I've met my pledge goal, and not at the very very very last minute like last year. Last year I was way behind, kept plugging away and checked online the night before registration and one of my sponsors had posted a large donation that put me over the top.

Bike Goddess blasted the pledge goal outa the park to borrow from another sport.

Annerol, how ya doing? Can we get a group figure, and more important a group portrait! We'll have to meet up, before, during, after the ride. Let's do breakfast together. We've had some talk about riding out together on Day 5 which I think is "red dress day".