Fund Raising Goals Met - Training

We are excited to have met our fundraising goal for Cycle to the Sea and for 24 Hours of Booty!  We are still working to raise more money for both of these very worthy causes, but glad to have met the goals that had been set.

Sunday, April 15, 2012, we had a great training ride with the CTTS crew at the business park in Huntersville.  We had at least 20 riders with some of our support staff as well.  With any standard cycle, we can fly on the down hills with the Beast.  Yesterday, we really had to work with the front pack on the down hills.  They were flying!  I am excited to see how Micah does on the ride.  We rode about 22 miles yesterday, and we only stopped after the first two laps. That was the longest he has been on the bike without a break.  I am excited about riding with him this year.

Tonight at our soccer practice, our virtue was determination.  I could not help but think of the hand cyclist friends that I have made over the last year with that virtue.  Last year on CTTS I got to know a lot of the riders, for most of them, one event in their lives, forever changed the way they would live.  It may have been a motorcycle accident, a bicycle crash, ATV accident, gunshot wound, or an innocent push into a swimming pool.  One day that changed their life, and left them with a decision of whether they would live that life to the fullest, or let life pass them by.  Determination is defined as the quality of being resolute; firmness of purpose.  There are challenges that must be faced daily that I could not even begin to understand, I will not pretend to, but I can see the determination that they possess and have the utmost respect for these athletes.  I consider myself very fortunate to get the opportunity to ride with the ASAP crew again this year.  I know this is an honor, and am looking forward to another great ride this year.  It will be a great experience to do this ride with Micah this year also.  With Micah riding and Caleb helping out with Kristy with equipment and our food, I think that both of the boys will gain a respect for someone who may do things a little differently than they do.  Thanks to organizations like ASAP, it is not a question of if someone can do something, but how they will do it.  Determination.

Pictures from the training ride 4/15/12