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Dude & Mini Dude's 2016 Ride-2-Survive
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@SmartCoach - thanks very much for the generous donation!
Guys, seriously....every year I get worse and worse at fundraising. After 8 years, apathy has set in. But TTP always comes up huge and makes me look good. You guys are rad!
Guys, seriously....every year I get worse and worse at fundraising. After 8 years, apathy has set in. But TTP always comes up huge and makes me look good. You guys are rad!
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We are a little over 2 weeks away!
June always seems to be off the hook crazy for me. For the past few years, it’s involved at least 2 or 3 significant cycling events, and then R2S shows up, we ride, and I mentally crash afterwards.
This year is a lot like 2014, where I couldn’t afford to have that mental crash because Ironman was a month later.
This year: R2S on June 19, Ironman Canada July 24.
This weekend I race the Oliver ½ Ironman, sort of a tester and gage. I’ve been busting my ass to try and get my running in order, I’m pacing a lot better, but frankly, I hate running so much, it’s never come easy for me, and I’m a little bit nervous about what I’ll have left in the tank after I crush the ride. While I’m up there, Michael will be pre-riding the 2016 Youth Road Provincials in Penticton, which happen NEXT weekend! He has three days of racing, capped by a tough 109 KM road race. I get the privilege of a long training weekend in and around his racing. Should be good!
So, like every year, our June is packed with events.
Training wise, both of us are doing well. We’ve both had weeks where general fatigue was turned into extreme exhaustion, and have been forced to take a couple of unplanned days off, and look closely at our nutrition intake. I think I’m figuring it out (really, by now you think I would have, not so), and I think Michael is, too.
Fundraising wise, and this is the real important part, we’ve done well. For the first time in years, I’ve hit my minimum well before ride day…which is nice. I’m not a great fundraiser. I loath asking people for money, even when it’s a good cause. Not because I’m embarrassed by what I’m doing, but because there is so much “charity” saturation out there. First, there simply is a lot of need, in general. Legitimate need. Secondly, there are too many pretenders; organizations that paint themselves as charitable, but really exist to line to pockets of the organizers. How does the general public sus out the difference?
One thing I’m very proud of w/ R2S, and why I keep going back, is because the organisers take a great deal of pride in keeping this 100% efficient. They are just as critical as we are, to the point that they demanded that the Canadian Cancer Society bypasses general revenues w/ our funding, and it goes directly into the research funds. Then we get to allocate the money to whatever specific research project we choose. Last year we allocated everything to brain cancer because Brain Canada was also matching 100% of any donation allocated to brain cancer research. One of our riders had lost his 9 year old son to brain cancer, so this really hit home for the group. Steve is very passionate about raising money in his son’s memory. I read somewhere that brain cancer in children has a 100% death rate. I can’t find that article now, so I can only have faith and believe that number is true. Basically, if you child is diagnosed with brain cancer, today, it’s a sure death sentence. I don’t ever want to live the hell that Steve, and now far too many of my friends through R2S, have lived. Their strength after going through that sort of hell leaves me awestruck.
Anyhow, after the fund matching, our group raised $1.2 million last year for brain cancer research. Not bad for a rag-tag team of 125 riders. 100% of money donated went to research and it's being used by Dr. Poul Sorensen at UBC. You can learn more about his work, here. http://molonc.bccrc.ca/sorensen-lab/
If you are so inclined to donate some of your hard earned dollars to Cancer Research, R2S will ensure 100% of it get to research funding. My page is here: http://convio.cancer.ca/site/TR/Otherspecialevents/IFE_BC_even_?px=5735705&pg=personal&fr_id=20552
Many thanks again for the ongoing support!
~Mike & Michael.
June always seems to be off the hook crazy for me. For the past few years, it’s involved at least 2 or 3 significant cycling events, and then R2S shows up, we ride, and I mentally crash afterwards.
This year is a lot like 2014, where I couldn’t afford to have that mental crash because Ironman was a month later.
This year: R2S on June 19, Ironman Canada July 24.
This weekend I race the Oliver ½ Ironman, sort of a tester and gage. I’ve been busting my ass to try and get my running in order, I’m pacing a lot better, but frankly, I hate running so much, it’s never come easy for me, and I’m a little bit nervous about what I’ll have left in the tank after I crush the ride. While I’m up there, Michael will be pre-riding the 2016 Youth Road Provincials in Penticton, which happen NEXT weekend! He has three days of racing, capped by a tough 109 KM road race. I get the privilege of a long training weekend in and around his racing. Should be good!
So, like every year, our June is packed with events.
Training wise, both of us are doing well. We’ve both had weeks where general fatigue was turned into extreme exhaustion, and have been forced to take a couple of unplanned days off, and look closely at our nutrition intake. I think I’m figuring it out (really, by now you think I would have, not so), and I think Michael is, too.
Fundraising wise, and this is the real important part, we’ve done well. For the first time in years, I’ve hit my minimum well before ride day…which is nice. I’m not a great fundraiser. I loath asking people for money, even when it’s a good cause. Not because I’m embarrassed by what I’m doing, but because there is so much “charity” saturation out there. First, there simply is a lot of need, in general. Legitimate need. Secondly, there are too many pretenders; organizations that paint themselves as charitable, but really exist to line to pockets of the organizers. How does the general public sus out the difference?
One thing I’m very proud of w/ R2S, and why I keep going back, is because the organisers take a great deal of pride in keeping this 100% efficient. They are just as critical as we are, to the point that they demanded that the Canadian Cancer Society bypasses general revenues w/ our funding, and it goes directly into the research funds. Then we get to allocate the money to whatever specific research project we choose. Last year we allocated everything to brain cancer because Brain Canada was also matching 100% of any donation allocated to brain cancer research. One of our riders had lost his 9 year old son to brain cancer, so this really hit home for the group. Steve is very passionate about raising money in his son’s memory. I read somewhere that brain cancer in children has a 100% death rate. I can’t find that article now, so I can only have faith and believe that number is true. Basically, if you child is diagnosed with brain cancer, today, it’s a sure death sentence. I don’t ever want to live the hell that Steve, and now far too many of my friends through R2S, have lived. Their strength after going through that sort of hell leaves me awestruck.
Anyhow, after the fund matching, our group raised $1.2 million last year for brain cancer research. Not bad for a rag-tag team of 125 riders. 100% of money donated went to research and it's being used by Dr. Poul Sorensen at UBC. You can learn more about his work, here. http://molonc.bccrc.ca/sorensen-lab/
If you are so inclined to donate some of your hard earned dollars to Cancer Research, R2S will ensure 100% of it get to research funding. My page is here: http://convio.cancer.ca/site/TR/Otherspecialevents/IFE_BC_even_?px=5735705&pg=personal&fr_id=20552
Many thanks again for the ongoing support!
~Mike & Michael.
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Short answer- yes. Same with the kid. Mondays are always tough in our house as we're both always coming off heavy training or racing weekends.
That said, we'll focus on good food all week, recovering, and be revving to go by Friday.
Thanks for the well wishes...
That said, we'll focus on good food all week, recovering, and be revving to go by Friday.
Thanks for the well wishes...
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So, we head up to Kelowna Friday, ride home Saturday. Simple as that.
We were in Penticton attending a stage race. Super proud of this kid; this year made the difficult jump from U17 to U19. He'll turn 17 later this year, but some of these older guys are beasts. Michael finished a very respectable 12/17 in the Overall GC of the Provincials, which is his combined time from the Time Trial, Crit, and Road race. The road race was a ball buster, 105 KM, and several guys dropped out. Mike finished it strong in 3:21 and a bit of change. Looking forward to another winter of training, and increased Power / bigger engine, and seeing how he does in the same division next year. Great experience, and most important, he enjoyed.
We were in Penticton attending a stage race. Super proud of this kid; this year made the difficult jump from U17 to U19. He'll turn 17 later this year, but some of these older guys are beasts. Michael finished a very respectable 12/17 in the Overall GC of the Provincials, which is his combined time from the Time Trial, Crit, and Road race. The road race was a ball buster, 105 KM, and several guys dropped out. Mike finished it strong in 3:21 and a bit of change. Looking forward to another winter of training, and increased Power / bigger engine, and seeing how he does in the same division next year. Great experience, and most important, he enjoyed.
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PS: who is this dedicated to?
My father died of cancer at age 56.
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