The Seismic Challenge

I'm doing it! I've registered to ride my 2nd SFAF fundraising ride, the Seismic Challenge! It is a 2 day, 200 mile ride down some of the most beautiful coastline in California- Fort Bragg- and then thru the Wine Country back to San Francisco. The best part? We stay in motels not tents! Hey I can ride 100 miles a day comfortably if I sleep in a real bed, no problem!

I'd really love your support in donating if that's possible. I can't comfortably go back to my ALC donors and ask for more money again... so I'm asking my Cycling Friends to do so.

You can read all about it HERE

Tour de Tahoe is September 7th!

I've registered to do Tour de Tahoe

From what I've heard there is a small contingent of ALC riders registered to ride it as well so that should be a whole bunch of fun!

I've got access to a 4 bedroom house rental that sleeps 10 so if you wanna go and wanna bunk with me and a few other ALC'ers drop me a note! The more we can get to share, the cheaper the price per person for the weekend. The ride is Sunday Sept 7th and we are going up the 5th (Friday) and leaving on the 8th (Monday).

Think about it! It could be loads of fun!!

The Recap... Day Seven

Spent the last night at the Marriott in Ventura. Michael was deathly ill, fighting that cold that eventually everyone (including me) caught. I convinced him to stay in bed and miss the candlelight vigil so that he would feel good enough to ride Day 7. Good thing too because he was running a fever and coughing a whole lot.

Up at 5:00am and down to the Starbuck's kiosk in the lobby. I downed a muffin and an americano and headed back to camp. Yoichi and I were on a mission: get on the road and off of the PCH by 10am so as not to get dinged by the surfboards and beach-goers this year. We were on the road by 6:04 (route opened at 6am) and to the lunch stop by 9:30. Damn right we were on San Vincente by 11am and soon stopped at Le Pain Quotidien for a real lunch and to watch our riders go by.

Me and my lunch/breakfast- so happy to be off the PCH.

Yoichi and his lunch/breakfast

After hanging out at brunch with Sandy and Donald, we went ahead and continued down San Vincente to Peet's coffee where we met up with folks and I rang the cowbell for awhile.

Me, Eric, and Cris
(Eric was one of my first TR leaders when I started training for ALC2 in 2003!)
David, Me and Donald at Peet's

more cowbell
(weird how that light fixture ended up on my head!)

Soon we were back on our bikes and headed for the final ride into the VA Center in Brentwood.
The end of another successful AIDS LifeCycle!