Tour de Cure
Tour de Cure 2010: Success
It’s 4:30 in the morning, a time when most people are still tucked in bed, but me and the volunteers and staff of Tour de Cure are already working up a sweat. Trucks are being unloaded, tents are popping up, and bagels are being sliced. In just 30 minutes, the Century riders will show up [...]
The Post the day before Tour…
Hey folks – its Friday, and in less than 24 hours, the Tour de Cure 2010 will be kicking off, and yours truly will be on site at 4:30am to make sure things are all set up for a successful event. Its been a whirlwind week – live news, board meetings, endless emails, and this [...]
More Tour de Cure News!
Tour de Cure is on Saturday, and we’ve been hitting the news circuit hard! Here’s two more clips of me and other Red Riders promoting the event. Again, you have to click on the link to watch, as WordPress doesn’t seem to want to let me embed these two…. San Diego Channel 6 – click [...]
Check out the Red Riders on Channel 5!
Myself and a few other Red Rider (bike riders with diabetes) were on the Channel 5 Fox news here in San Diego yesterday. Rich, Art (yes, this guy) Steve and I tag teamed a promo spot for the upcoming Tour de Cure with Channel 5′s, uhm, very energetic news anchor, Chrissy Russo. Unfortunately, I haven’t [...]
Swinging while biking. No really, its possible…
On Saturday we went out to do the 30 mile Tour de Cure bike ride with our volunteer committee, and also a few of the researchers who have received ADA funding for their work. It’s an informal “pre-event ride,” that we try to do every year a week or two before Tour. It’s an awesome [...]
Thanks for that, ‘betes…
Anyone with diabetes knows that you spend hours upon end thinking about your disease: counting carbs, dosing, crunching numbers, treating lows – there’s a lot of time dedicated to diabetes. But what surprises me is how having diabetes has directly affected where I spend my time. Both my job and extracurriculars are more often diabetes-related [...]
And speaking of Olympians…I’m not one…
Ok, considering I just posted about the Olympics, I am feeling a little loser-ish about the post I’m about to write, but I just gotta get it out. It’s officially training time for the San Diego Tour de Cure, with the event only being 8 weeks away. Last year I barely trained for the 30 [...]
Tour de Cure promo video – Red Riders rockin’ it…
Check out this amazing video that Markus Neuert of Cyclefilm.com put together for the Tour de Cure San Diego. We went out for a ride with him on Sunday and he created this awesome promo vid for us — check it out! And if you are in the SD area Thursday night, swing by the [...]
One order of fried insulin, coming up.
Yesterday I took to the streets of south bay San Diego for Bike the Bay, an annual cycling fun ride that takes you through 22 miles of America’s Finest City, including riding over the Coronado Bridge. The views were breathtaking and the ride was early enough that no one was roasted alive in this insane [...]
Great Success!
Wow. That is the only word that comes to mind when I try to sum up the Tour de Cure experience this year. The whole event had an energy to it that I can’t explain. There was a sense of support, of community, of camaraderie that I can’t even put in to words. As a faithful [...]
