Just a note to let you all know the 2010 Ride Ataxia season is about to begin! The first 3 years were tied to the annual National Ataxia Foundation conference. After last year's riding in the rain, hail and cold for 3 of the 4 days the organizers looked to this year with the conference being held in Chicago, in March, and they were worried with good reason. The weather around Chicago in March is completely unpredicable and tending strongly toward really bad. It was time for a change in strategy. So they regionalized the ride so more people more locally could participate in the ride. And they dissociated the ride from the conference timing so the regional rides could optimize the seasonal timing in their area. Last October Phillie had a ride, one is planned for April in Florida and the LA area will have one this Fall. For our region, since Kyle Bryant is from the Sacramento area he took the leadership role in organizing this year's Ride Ataxia Nor Cal for May 15 - 16 starting in Folsom and swinging up to Grass Valley and back, a challenging route.
Yes, I will be riding again. My bike is hanging in there and so far so am I. The battle to defeat Friedreich's Ataxia is being won, the tide has turned in our favor with 7 FA clinical trials happening right now and more are planned soon. Now it is not that time is money, it is that money is time saved. The more money applied to the battle the sooner it is won. And Brianne needs a sooner rather than later victory in this war. So yes I will be riding.
And I hope you all will be riding with me too! This ride has always been about generous donors and gathering bunches of money to throw (intelligently) at FA. So join me by becoming a financial sponsor at
https://app.etapestry.com/fundraiser/FriedreichsAtaxiaResearchA/norcal/individual.do?participationRef=4786.0.121601057 ; click on "Sponsor Me".
Or ride with me and gather sponsors of your own for this grand bike ride!
You can get more details of the ride at http://www.rideataxia.org/norcal/ .
Enough for now. Thanks for reading! I'll write a bit more as I get organized.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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