Team Testosterbones (Page 18)

Well, I didn't hit my 125% goal, but I did make 120%.  I rode more miles this month I did in any month prior, so the challenge helped me reach a whole new plateau.

There's still a few hours left in the month, so if you're not at your goal yet, get out and ride!

Go Bones.

Yo, Captain 'Bones.

The Goddesses are 1 Goddess away from having 90% of Goddesses reach or exceed 90% of their goals. I promised them that, if 90% of Goddesses hit 90% or > of goal, we'd send ya 38 cupcakes as thanks for motivating us to pedal, pedal, pedal (in a roundabout, reverse psychology, smackingly annoying kind of way).

Off Ashford-Dunwoody, is that correct? I believe the building is about 1 block from the building I worked in when I was recruiting in Atlanta.

I got my last ride in of the month tonight.  I'm officially at 558.8/500.

Give yourselves and your crotches a well-deserved day off, boys. You done good.

Results here:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=20845&posts=1#s

Karl, if you would, set about some way of designating a charity for the losers ladies to make their contributions.

Way to go brother Bones!!  I just LOVE cupcakes!!

If we haven't designated a charity yet, I would recommend the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure once again.  I have a website already set up to take online donations, and it is a great cause.  Being that the Tour is a cycling event, and this was a cycling challenge, it also makes sense.  I've raised $6500 so far, so a few hundred more would be great! Especially since I fundraised my butt off, and then the night before my ride, a college kid showed up at the ADA office with his dad, and asked the ADA rep that was running the ride (and had been sending out fundraising updates via email telling all riders about my progress since I was so far ahead of previous fundraisers for this event) how much I had raised to date.  When she told him my total, his dad donated a check for $2000 on the spot so that his spoiled kid would be ahead of me and designated the top fundraiser in the history of the Texas rides.  I didn't find out until all 1,000 of us were at the start line for the ride and the spoiled kid was presented the #1 bib by Kevin Livingston...I was pissed! I am still top for my region, but another $200 or so would put me back ahead of him.  Plus, it was my longest cycling event to date, so it is near and dear to me.

If this works for the Bones, I'm providing the link here so Karl can send it over to the cupcakes as a link.  If you guys want to do a different charity, that's cool too.

http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR?px=2247832&fl=en_US&s_tafId=15980&pg=personal&fr_id=2332]

Congrats bones.  Helluva month.  Well done to all.  I'm certainly ok with any charity.  If given a choice, I'd prefer to support a cancer related charity.  I've got a co-worker of mine whose cancer came out of remission in Jan this year and is struggling to make some progress in chemo.  I think another one of our own here at BT has a family member that's affected by Leukemia.

Jeff

Congratulations, 'Bones!

Great effort from everybody. Looking at the spreadsheet makes me very proud. So many men and women hitting/exceeding their goals; very impressive. Fantastic effort from everybody.

I really enjoyed the challenge and the high profile nature of it forced me to push further and harder than I've done since starting my bike training. Thanks for competing/playing!

Now I just need to find out where Karl wants those 38 cupcakes delivered...

I think any charity is a good charity.

However, I vote for Aplastic Anemia not only because my wife is stricken with the disease but because:

1. it's such a rare disease (2-3 out of a million people) that these people have VERY little resources (no lance armstrongs or team in trainings) to help them raise money to find a cure
2. there has been INCREDIBLE progress towards a cure since 1983 reducing the mortality rate from 80% in 1983 down to 30% today ! !
3. not a priority for pharmaceutical companies or research universities

People with rare diseases NEED OUR HELP !

Mea Culpa ... I feel horrible about not holding up my end of the bargain, boys. Between my race last week and 3 days in Chicago this week, not only have I not hit my biking goal, I've had 3 consecutive days off - a first since Aug. 16, 2004. I had my second best bike month ever, but I was still short of my promised 450 miles. Is there a punishment? I mean, do I have to run through town in a diaper or something?

For some reason, my work computer is filtering out the results link. I presume we won. Congratulations to everyone for a fantastic job, and thanks for hauling my ass on your backs!