I don’t have the final numbers yet, but based on what we knew as of last Friday night and with the folks that registered the day of the ride, there were right at 100 riders for the first Ride for the Tammy Lynn Center. The folks at Tammy Lynn are tallying the fund raising amounts and should be posting a total sometime this week.
Debby, Ralph, and I really appreciate everyone who rode and all of the volunteers (our friends). Usually I am on the other side of the camera at these types of events so it was a relief to perform the sweeper duties on the 50K route instead of pretending to be Graham Watson. The photos from the event are here. Many thanks to Cindy for taking on the role of photographer/sag driver as well as Rachel our other sag driver. Little do you guys know that if you cramped up on the 100K the sag driver could provide immediate massage therapy. Too bad my friends Dennis and Ed found that out the hard way with real cramps. Please check your goody bag for discount coupon for a massage from Rachel.
If anyone rides the Firecracker ride out of Cary this coming weekend, I will be there in my lime green Boone Bike & Touring jersey. Please say hi, so I can say thanks again.
Some of the sponsors for both in kind donations and other types of support were:
- Bruegger’s Bagels
- Caribou Coffee
- Cindy Adams (Photos & Sag)
- Cycling Spoken Here
- Detour Bars
- Food Lion
- Great Harvest Bread Co.
- Lifestyle Family Fitness
- McDonald’s (Kildaire Farm Rd.)
- NC State Centennial Campus
- Performance Bicycles (Cary & Corporate)
- Rachel Wilde (Sag)
- Rest Stop Friends (You know who you are)
- Rick Fleck (Routes)
- Rita’s Ices (Morrisville)
- Road I.D.
- Sam’s Club
- Subway
- Target
- Whole Foods (those yummy granola bars)


I used some community service leave from work today as a volunteer for Community Emergency Response Team Train the Trainer end of class drill. I was supposedly impaled with a piece of metal during a tornado. It worked out pretty well I thought. My left leg went to sleep while waiting to be found by the rescue team so when I was trying to get out of the bath tub I really needed actual assistance. The trip down from the second floor on a stretcher was a little scary, but I am here. Hopefully these new instructors will train up a bunch of new CERT volunteers. If you are not sure what CERT is, 