Riding for Roses

What are these cancer profiles? I couldn’t possibly capture a person in the short space of a blog entry. Nor could I even capture their experience with cancer. These are more of a snapshot, a small memory of that person, usually involving their cancer.

My maternal grandfather, Ralstone R. Irvine, died from colon cancer….

Sunday, June 5, 2005, we are having a National Cancer Survivors Day celebration of life at Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church at 3315 El Salido Parkway; Cedar Park, TX. We will have food, information tables about cancer survivorship issues, kid activities, and a donation table for Spencer’s effort to raise $25,000 for the Lance Armstrong [...]

Spencer is raising money to support the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Donate to support cancer survivors and Spencer’s effort to raise $25,000 for the Ride for the Roses. I finally got my act together on May 24 and started executing the fundraising plan I had been drafting for months. Spencer has been talking up fundraising all along and we are slowly reaping the benefits of that. May 24 was day one of a one hundred day plan and it went well….

The time has come to start making serious efforts on fundraising. I looked at the calendar yesterday and it scared me. The math is simple. There are basically one hundred days left until the fund raising deadline and we had just under $916.13 the minimum goal of $15,000, which is the Polka Dot Jersey fundraising level and the mininum to get into the private ride. That’s $140.84 per day. Every day. All summer. The stretch goal is $25,o00, which is the Yellow Jersey fundraising level. That’s $240.84 per day. Every day. All summer….

What a kick! Spencer and I were on two local news reports tonight. We were interviewed for stories on KEYE and “KVUE”http://www.kvue.com by the teams out covering the 24 Hour Fitness Lance Armstrong Sport Club grand opening. Both stories include shots of Spencer decked out in 37 liveStrong wrist bands….

We had a followup doctor visit to do a wound check on Spencer’s road rash today and it looks great….

Spencer crashed his bike today and got pretty bad road rash. Both knees got torn up a bit, his right forearm has a chunk of missing skin over an inch around, and he got a few scrapes on his left ankle and foot….

Finally, we are going to have a First Night Austin in December, 2005. Many years ago (in the early 80s), when I lived in Boston, I was an attendee at First Night in its original environment and loved it. First Night is a community-oriented, city-wide, alcohol-free (though this is more a theoretical goal, than a [...]

The new “Lake Creek” 24 Hour Fitness at 13802 N Hwy 183 is having a LAF event on Monday, May 2, from 4 PM to 8 PM