This was a good year. There’s no other way to put it. Here’s a look back at some of the stellar moments from 2011. Several of the items are linked to the blog posts where I originally blogged about them. Legally Married: After 16 years of being together, and 14 since we had our commitment ceremony, [...]
26Dec11
2011: Year in Review
Thanksgiving morning was thrilling. Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV as a kid I never expected to see the parade in person. Then in 1999, Will and I spent our first Thanksgiving in New York, and, even tough he had to work, I went to the parade. I’ve been a few times over [...]
I’ll be up and out of the house before dawn on Thanksgiving morning so I can get ready to escort Ronald McDonald down the route of the 85th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. How did I end up escorting a balloon? The Flying Goats had the highest per-person average fund raising for Braking the Cycle and [...]
29Oct11
Braking the Cycle 2011 Video
It’s been five weeks since Braking the Cycle and this week there was a reunion party to allow everyone a chance to get together, hear updates about the fundraising for 2011, get some previews on 2012 and see the video Black Watch Productions put together for this year’s ride. The most exciting announcement was that, [...]
17Sep11
Braking the Cycle 2011 – Day 2
I am exhausted. And I probably should be since I rode the complete 105 miles today. No vans what so ever. I only got chased from one Oasis right at the end. I was on the course from about 6:30 to 6:30. What i do have at hand right now is the time it took [...]
16Sep11
Braking the Cycle 2011 – Day 1
What a day today was! I hardly know where to begin. I guess the biggest news from Day 1 is the annoucement of the team awards. Team Eagle took the prize for most amount earned by a team. They rocked it again with some $120,000. That’s an incredible amount of cash. It’s great they were [...]
Yesterday morning I did the final training ride ahead of this year’s Braking the Cycle. It was a fairly easy 40 miles, 30 of which were done in Central Park.The ride was the culmination of a few months of training that I’ve done with Joey and Kip to get better prepared for the ride. The [...]
