Raising money for cancer research..

[ForcedFirebird]

Yeah. I've been lucky so far with my family. But cancer is basically inevitable.

Haven't done the ride again for a while. Everyone else dropped out that was in our group, and i was the only one who really tried anyway. But there are always more events in the future. :)

Don't need a group. I will donate again if you ride :)

[nando]

Yeah. I've been lucky so far with my family. But cancer is basically inevitable.

Haven't done the ride again for a while. Everyone else dropped out that was in our group, and i was the only one who really tried anyway. But there are always more events in the future. :)

[itskingsteelo]

good to see that a car enthusiast community helped you with your research, my aunt passed from cervical cancer not too long ago, and a friend of mine has just been diagnosed with it too. sucks to hear people go through it :(

[nando]

facebook sucks for raising money, I raised exactly $0 on facebook.

actually, scratch that, facebook generally sucks. :p

[M-technik-3]

Yeah, funny how stuff like that happens. So my Red Lemons Racing team raised money for Prostate cancer. We raised a whopping 300 bucks but it helped we did it via Facebook. Guess our guy that had one thing to do the facebook page really didn't put any effort into it.

Debating if next year we are going away from our theme.

[nando]

it is, but I don't think I'm going to do it this year.

Part of the reason is the sponsor - Enbridge. I understand the foundation itself couldn't turn down the sponsorship, which I'm sure is millions of dollars in support of cancer research. But there is great irony (and a little hypocrisy) in a company that makes its money pumping known carcinogens across the continent while simultaneously funding research on a disease that's at least partially caused by their own products.

doesn't mean I won't do other cancer rides, runs, or other types of races, just probably not this one again.

[FL318is]

nando

I missed this post. Thank you and all the r3v ppl. I had cancer (3.8 years cancer free). I appreciate you guys more than you can know.

Is this an annual event?

[Nick_S]

Glad to hear it went well! My ride is in a month. Still have around $700 to reach my goal of what I've pledged to raise.

[nando]

I know, I need to add pics and stuff. there really weren't any great pics, but it was disgustingly wet on the first day. And I was pretty much dead to the world for the first week after the ride.. lol

[Luis325]

congrats bud!

[nando]

I did end up reaching $3,000 in donations!

I have updates but needless to say, I'm exhausted.. lol.

[nando]

4:30 am... Up & at 'em for another 120 km bike. I slept like a baby! :)

[nando]

1st day done! It ended ip being 120km, not 75... So the toal after tomorrow will be 240 km.

It has POURED rain the entire time. I've never been so wet in my life! Good thing i was born with webbed feet. ;)

Watch the media coverage, i have a blunttech sticker on the front of my helmet and i followed several camera cars.

My phone battery wont do a 120 km ride via gps, but i can track most of it. I've averaged ~25kph which is hard over such a long distance. Plus i still have to do it tomorrow ahain!

The ride raised $11 million for cancer research and you guys were a part of itt!

[MR 325]

Good luck buddy.

[nando]

ride starts in an hour..

You can go to the following link to track me live:

http://runtastic.com/en/users/Chris-Seigman/sport-sessions/list

It won't be active until I cross the border (I'm not paying data roaming for an hour of riding!). When it goes active, there'll be a little icon that says "live". Click on that activity and there will be a map of my current location, speed, etc. Also, underneath will be buttons you can click to "cheer" me - pretty cool, it plays them on my phone instantly.

We also have timing chips and you can follow the ride progress here

http://va12.conquercancer.ca/site/PageServer?pagename=va12_ride_with_us%27