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Help us Ride the Rideau

Dan mentioned this a few weeks ( months?) ago, but we signed up for a 100 km bike ride from Ottawa to Merrickville.

I’ve never ridden 100 kms in one ride.  I might not have done it in 3+ rides.  Cycling is not my sport.  Not even close.  My bum is very, very scared.

But when Dan mentioned his work was putting a team together, I jumped at the chance.  A few hours on a bike? Awesome.  A few hours spent with Dan doing something fun that we’ve never done before?  Why not?  A few hours to do my part in the fight against cancer?  Where do I sign?

Cancer.  The word itself strikes a myriad of emotions in any of us who have been touched by it.  Sadness, grief, anger.  But also hope.  A hope that one day the people we love will not be taken from us after a battle with cancer.  A hope that our children won’t feel the same pain when a parent, an aunt, an uncle, a sister, a brother, a grandparent or a friend receives a devastating diagnosis.  A hope that cancer will be stopped dead in its tracks.

I have lost, but I have hope.  And if hopping on my bike to ride 100 kms can do anything, anything at all, to help that fight along, I’m in.

Not everyone can hop on a bike, whether they desperately want to or not.  But everyone can make a difference.  And this year, this time, maybe that small difference can be in the form of a small (or big!) donation in support of Dan or I.  (We’re competing, in case you hadn’t heard).

Each rider is asked to raise $1500.  Dan and I have a few supporters, but not enough.  Nowhere close.  I, for one, am terrible at asking.  I don’t like to bother people.  But I’m asking now.  Please, if you can, help us meet our goal of $1500 each.  Every dollar gets us that much closer and, more importantly, could be the dollar that funds finding a cure.  Just imagine…

No matter how big or how small…we thank you in advance for being so generous.

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