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

You can view all my photos from this epic ride at the following location: http://cid-143e11f69d35a646.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Give%20to%20Live

Friday, October 23, 2009

Day 12 - Final Day, Arrival in Austin

We were up at 0500 and off to our departure point. To break up the routine of our team riding the whole distance, we decided to make the last 95kms into a time trial. It was just luck of the draw who got climbs on their 13km leg (full speed). Just my luck I got 3 climbs which slowed me down but still had an average of 36kms/
km. Everyone had fun with this as broke the daily routine of riding our leg with the entire team and we finished way faster than with a group. We arrived at a Church just out of Austin to a very nice reception. After all the teams arrived we departed for where the Lance Armstrong event will be held over the weekend in a full group ride of about 40 riders, escourted by police. I am tired and now looking forward to getting home. I had an incredible experience and met so many people who just came to our van with the lettering and gave their story or how cancer has affected their lives. I will check out Austin over the weekend as my flight home is not until 1430 Monday.