Third Ride’s a Charm
Thanks to Amy, I was able to email Gina with my piece of writing about why I’ve registered for the Ft. Worth, TX Tour de Cure and how diabetes has affected me. (Affected me, HAH! It almost killed me 3 weeks ago.)
This is what I’ve officially put on my Ft. Worth Tour de Cure Personal Page:
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For 15 years, I’ve battled a disease that has controlled and changed my life. This disease took everything I was away from me. It ripped away my childhood and the athlete in me away with it. I went from being a little girl who was constantly outside biking, rollarblading, swimming, and running around to being limited in what activities I could participate in. This disease changed me into a spectator when all my life I had been a participant. That disease is diabetes, and every 2 minutes another American dies from diabetes related complications. In that same 2 minutes, 6 more Americans are diagnosed with diabetes.
For 15 years, I’ve done nothing to stop this disease from hindering me. Well, I refuse to be limited by diabetes any longer. This year, I decided to do something to battle diabetes. I’m fighting back by taking part in Tour de Cure bike rides around the country. The Tour de Cure is not simply a pleasure ride, it’s a ride which will raise money to help find a cure for a horrible disease. A horrible disease that currently 20.8 million American children and adults are battling.
The Ft. Worth Tour de Cure is my third Tour de Cure this year, as well as third in my personal goal to ride in a Tour de Cure in every state. Although my personal goals are secondary to the primary reason I ride - for the cure to diabetes - I consider them an important part of fighting this awful disease. I ride for myself, for my family members with diabetes, for all my friends with diabetes, for those with diabetes that I don’t know, and for those that will be saved from the torment of diabetes when a cure is found. And I will continue to ride until that cure is found, whether it be before I’ve ridden in all 50 states or long afterwards.
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Thanks Amy! I couldn’t have done it without you 
Pelf Brings Me to 40%
The first 35% of my Ft. Worth, TX Tour de Cure has been funded by my earnings from PayPerPost. Back in September I wrote about how I was riding with a bigger purpose and that I had asked the community at PayPerPost if diabetes had affected them. Pelf was one of those responders to my thread. She was also a responder when I IM’d everyone and asked if I could have the names of their family members/friends that had diabetes.
Pelf’s aunt has diabetes and I’ll be riding for her when I go to Ft. Worth, TX. And even though all I asked Pelf for was the name of her aunt, she’s supporting my ride, she’s actually supporting the cure. The cure for an awful disease that not only affects her aunt, me and so many other people.
Thank You Pelf for being so generous and sponsoring me in my ride.
Riding with a bigger purpose
A few months ago when I got this website off the ground, I wanted to get the word out about it and so I went to to the boards on my favorite online advertising company (for whom I write) PayPerPost. PayPerPost has a fairly large community and I was curious about how many people were affected by diabetes, whether it be through themselves, a family member, a friend, etc. There were quite a few people.
Today I started emailing the various people to see if I could get the names of these people that are affected by diabetes. I decided to do this because in the Longmont, CO Tour de Cure I found that it was easier to ride if I was riding for someone besides myself (I know, it’s so unlike my very self centered selfish self). When I was in Longmont I had just about 1 person per mile I was riding, mostly they were family and friends but there were some family members of some of my friends. When I’d get discouraged all I had to do was think of those people and I kept going.
I needed more people to think of for my ride in the Ft. Worth, Texas Tour de Cure and so I’m on a mission to get those names. Sure, I can think of the same people that I thought about in the Longmont, CO Tour de Cure. But there’s so many more people beyond my friends and family that have diabetes and when the cure if found it’s not just for me or my family or my friends but for all those that have diabetes. And that’s why I’m looking for names of people that I can ride for.
If you would like, leave a comment with the name of someone you know that has diabetes and I’ll name them as one of the people I ride for.
They Need My Story…
I just found out that this is the first year for the Ft. Worth Tour de Cure. I got an email from the communications director for the ADA in Ft. Worth Texas. She asked for our (our being the current registrants of the Ft. Worth Tour de Cure) personal stories of why we registered for the Tour de Cure. She wants to know how diabetes has affected us. She wants to place some of the stories in the metroplex (which I had to look up, it’s what they call the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area) to help promote the event with hopes that it will inspire people to register.
Now, I have to say that I hate writing, like professional writing, beyond my blog, it kills me to write for a professional population, where things have to be edited and grammar has to be proper. It just doesn’t happen. I do a horrible job at it. Being so, I’ve not even written my personal page for the Ft. Worth Tour de Cure, the page that peeps go to when they want to sponsor me. Yeah, I’ve not written it.
I asked Jules if she would edit something (the reasons I ride piece) for me later, but she laughed at me and told me that Amy is the writing nazi and that she’d be better at editing it for me. So, I’m going to start writing it, but in the meantime, I’ve emailed Amy and asked for her help…I’ve also told her that I hate writing…