Give To Live, Cycle for life 2009 was in it's 3rd year of a cycling event to raise money for cancer research through the Canadian Cancer Society and the Lance Armstrong Foundation in the US. On October 12 we left Vancouver and headed for Austin Texas by bicycle to meet up with thousands of other cyclists from all over the US with the Lance Armstrong Foundation raising money for Cancer research. We covered about 5,000Kms!
About me!
Rennie Young: I retired from Honda Canada Inc. last December after 26 years, 17 years with the military prior to that. Also, I turned 65 Sept. 10. "I wanted to do one thing in my life that would make a difference and I felt this was IT"! I surpassed my fund raising goal of $5,000. I want to thank all who donated to the cause on my behalf. I only started my fund raising on July 22 and found everyone very eager to contribute as just about everybody has been touched by Cancer. It is a horrific disease and we have to make it history!
There are some awesome videos: www.givetolive.ca, select the media tab at top and then videos. Also new links now on the Ride's main Web Site, I was part of Team #5. www.givetolive.ca
When I made mention of people in yesterday’s post I forgot
one of the most important persons in my life and my biggest supporter, my
daughter JANET who lives in LA. I felt so bad forgetting to mention her. I love
her so much, she is an amazing person. She helped me fund raise and always
encouraged me that I could accomplish this. So I rode today for my daughter Janet.
We left Vegas and
started somewhere in the desert into a very strong headwind, took us about an
hour to travel the first 20kms in close formation drafting. We then went
through a city and took a left turn putting the strong wind at our back. I was
coasting at 40kms/hr hardly pedaling for about 25kms. So another day and we are
now driving to our destination for the night near the Grand Canyon but we will not get there!
