The ultimate in Saddle Sore
Sometimes I get ideas into my head. Not often, but sometimes :
“Dan, I think it’s a good idea to work on your Zombie culling skills.”
“Dan, you should go make yourself a tasty beverage.”
“Dan, today would be a good day of the week to wear pants.”
“Dan, why don’t you grab your helmet, hop on your bicycle and ride some insane distance over multiple days to some foreign country and raise some money for Cancer Research while doing this ride.”
This last thought had me puzzled a bit. It’s a little outside of my normal Zombie culling-drink making-no pants wearing-world. Well my brain doesn’t ofter lead me seriously wrong, so I thought I’d pay some heed to this thought and see where it takes me.
So I signed up for The Ride to Conquer Cancer. It’s a Vancouver to Seattle, 300km, two day bicycle ride on June 20-21. I’ll just bold that one little part…BICYCLE 300KM IN TWO DAYS! I’m also supposed to raise a minimum of $2500….let me just bold that as well RAISE A MINIMUM OF $2500! I’m a little uncertain which part concerns me more, the distance I’ll be riding, or the funds I’m supposed to raise. Well this last part is where you, my philanthropist friends, come in.
So whatever your motive; if you know someone that would benefit from Cancer Research, if you’ve known someone in the past with Cancer, or if you’re pleasure is to pay to see me suffer for two days, I’ll take any and all comers to the donation fund.
So here’s how it’s done. Go to this Sponsor Dan’s Ride link.
Click on the yellow “Sponsor Dan Healey” button, and follow along the instructions.
If you are considering donating, sooner rather then later would help me sleep better at night as I’ve never tried to raise this kind of money before and it certainly seems like a daunting task. As well, spread the word, I’ll take donations from any and all sources.
Thanks in advance for anything that you can contribute!
“Cos all I want to do is,
Bicycle bicycle bicycle!
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle!
I want to ride my bicycle,
I want to ride my bike.
I want to ride my bicycle,
I want to ride it where I like!”
3 comments Monday 20 Apr 2009 | Slanty2D | SlantyNet - General
Sounds good but when I go through the links it doesn’t look like I can send the cc info over a secure link.
If the interweb doesn’t meet your needs, there is a form that you can print off and mail in. Link for that form is right under the yellow “Support Dan Healey” button.
Thanks for the potential donation! I’m pretty sore right now, did a 3 hour ride in Kelowna this afternoon. I was SO wrong in thinking it was flat here!
Dan, if you want flat you need to come out our way and keep going east for another 100 km. But what’s the point of that? I don’t expect Van-Seattle to be flat so you might as well make it painful right from the start.
300k is a fair stretch, more than I’ve ever done in two days, but doable with just a bike. I suggest doing a long two-day training ride to make sure you know how the ass feels in the saddle after working it that hard.