We've been coaching for Team in Training since 2001. I've been involved with TNT at various levels since 1999. It's a big time commitment and TNT provides training for its coaches, so they take it all as seriously as we do. For the centuries we coached it was 1/2 day to 3/4 day every other Saturday for 5 months. Now that we coach Death Ride (since 2006) it's a 6 month training and the long rides pretty much eat up our entire Saturday. Plus since I'm the organizational/training wing of it, the ride training plan, ride plans, working with other volunteers, interaction with TNT adds probably 2 - 3 hours a week on top of the coaching end of it and begins about 6 - 8 weeks before our first ride. This year I am in charge of 2 combined teams which stretch out across the Bay Area. I think I have everyone's name down.

It's a lot of fun and I love seeing people do something new that they never thought they could do before.

I've also been on legal association boards and volunteer time to court alternative dispute resolution programs as part of my job. But the cycling volunteering is more fun.

I think it's really important, especially in this time of relative crisis, that we pull together and do SOMETHING beyond that for which we get money, to make our world just a bit better.