August 2009
1 post
How do you spell success? 60 B4 60!!!!!
Hello Blogland:
After a few weeks away I am back with another post.
I just want to let everyone out there know how fortunate I have been to be at a point where I can say I have reached my fundraising goal. Okay, in reality it is my “new / second” fundraising goal.
When I was first accepted as a 2009 National Rider my biggest challenge was thinking about whether or not I would be...
July 2009
2 posts
Reflections and Learnings from SNKCR 2009
Hello Blog Land:
It has now been a week and a day since we completed our incredible journey in Halifax. Eight days in which to return home; connect and re-connect with friends and family; settle back into a routine that was life before the training started; return to work; and, to reflect on what has happened to us as a result of being involved in such an epic adventure.
Throughout this whole...
June 2009
81 posts
Day 12 - Halifax
Hello Blog Land: As I write this blog I am on my way back to Toronto - not on my bike; rather on a WestJet flight. The National Ride for 2009 is complete and by all measures it has been a success! More on this later; first the last day of the ride. All 36 riders and all crew were overnight in Lower Sackville and we awoke to a cool, foggy morning. The rain that had fallen during the night had...
Day 11 - and it feels like Heaven
Hello Blog Land: Well, this posting is coming to you from a parking lot in Lower Sackville, NS - less than 50 km from Halifax and the end of this incredible journey. With half a day’s riding we will be ‘wheel dipping’ again to signify the end of the 2009 Coast to Coast Against Cancer National Ride. However, more about that tomorrow. Today was one of those magical days on the...
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
Day 10 - new day and a new province
Hello Blog Land: Greetings once again from RV 3A. We are at this moment heading for our showers after a rather cool and overcast day. Once again we have been experiencing less than great cycling weather. We have outrun or otherwise lost the warm sunny conditions under which we began this ride. We awoke this morning in Riviere Bleue where we were met with cool winds and heavy grey skies and the...
“I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do...”
– Helen Keller
Day 9 - Into La Belle Province
Hello Blog Land: Here we are with 9 days down and three to go until we reach Halifax. By now we have travelled through 5 provinces in this great country of ours, and today we entered in the 6th one - Quebec. With yesterday’s trek through southern Ontario, and being in Ottawa and Montreal today, I have met and chatted with many of you professed blog followers. Thank you for letting me know...
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Ghandi
Day 8 - Woodstock to Toronto; the road to my...
Hello Blog Land: This message is again coming to you from the RV as we wend our way Eastward along the 401 highway to or overnight destination of Ottawa. We will then ride to Montreal. The weather word for today is “wet”. For the first time on this trip we encountered rain. And rain it did. Given that we were in Southern Ontario and it was Saturday, and we had a long ride, it just had...
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
Day 7 - the second half begins
Hello Blog Land: This posting comes to you from beautiful downtown Woodstock. (And, no not from the RV…what a treat!) This place is famous if for no other reason than it is a suburb of Sweaburg. Oh yeah, it also plays some part in the background of Jeff Rushton, founder and passionate volunteer for the C2CAC Foundation! (Sorry if anyone from Woodstock or Sweaburg is offended. It is all in...
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney
Day 6 - Does it get any better than this?
Hello again, Blog Land. My last post asked the question, “Does it get any better?” I must tell you it JUST DID!!!! As we were filling the RV up with gas when we were leaving the Soo, we noticed that one of the rear, inside tires was flat. When we checked the RV for tools to try and find out the problem, we discovered there was nothing in the way of tools, spares, or anything. The folks...
Day 6 - Does it get any better?
Hello Blog Land: Day 6 will go down in the collective memories of Team 3 as “one of the best days ever!” Waking up in Wawa (with an ‘extra’ hour of sleep - 6 vs. 5) the day got off to a terrific start. Everyone on the Team was in good spirits and looking forward to a great ride. We got underway on time, the sun was warm and the wind was calm. Our route would take us through...
“I’m not a dreamer, and I’m not saying this will initiate any kind of...”
– Terry Fox
Day 5 - and glad to be alive
Hello Blog Land: It feels like I am almost ‘home’ as we have arrived back in Ontario. I think that makes it 5 provinces in 5 days; and what glorious days they have been! I was thinking about an appropriate title for today’s post while we were making our way out of Mine Center (yes, I have been there and I still don’t know where it is, although I suspect it may be in the...
Day 4 - Let there be more!
Hello Blog Land! Greetings from the Trans-Canada Highway, just outside Windypeg (although most of you will know it as Winnipeg). Day 4 was a day of winds and our Team battled through them for almost 200 kilometers with epic courage, strong legs, a most impressive commitment to the kids and the cause, and gratifying results. Our day began early in Brandon, under heavy skies that looked like we...
Delayed posts - sorry but no wireless access for a...
This is Anne, Tim’s wife, letting his blog followers know that he didn’t have wireless service last night when he did his Day 4 post, so it is delayed until tonight when they reach Thunder Bay, and hopefully resumed wireless service! You’ll get a bonus with 2 to read once he does today’s Day 5 post!
Thanks for following and supporting him. This means a lot to him, as do...
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change...”
– Margaret Cho