The change you make can lead to revolution!
The weather last night was perfect for a bike ride. My dad and I spent some time training on our bikes before pedaling into downtown Monroe to check out the River Raisin Independence Festival. This picture was taken by Kohl Threlkeld of the Monroe Evening News.
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I met Brock Webb at the Century Club dinner honoring fundraisers for the Trek 100 Ride for Hope. I gave him a shirt and he said that he would wear it at a race and send a picture to me. He took this picture after riding in a time trial for the Springfield Inronhorse Triathalon Team. Brock holds the record for the course which has been used for over 20 years. Brock is in the yellow Many Revolutions shirt. He must be a fast rider!
There is a doctor here in town by the name of Dr. Scott Hughes. He has a show on our local cable channel. He had my brother and me on the show for an interview. We met him through Rotary’s honoring me for my work. I can tell that he cares a lot about other people. It was fun to be recorded on a television show and to see how it is done. Thank you Dr. Hughes!
On Friday night, I got to have dinner with 29 college students who are riding their bikes across the United States as part of Habitat for Humanity’s Bicycle Challenge. There are about 90 riders as part of three teams. They are raising about $400,000 to build 8 houses. Even though they are raising money themselves, two people donated $120 to Many Revolutions. What a great group of people! I hope to get to join them for part of their ride next year.
We got back to work the weekend after our bike ride in Wisconsin. Keenan, my mom, my dad, and I passed out flyers and bags to more than 200 houses in a subdivision on a Friday night. On Saturday afternoon we went back to the subdivision with another scouting family: the Preston’s. The neighborhood overwhelmed us with cans. We didn’t have enough room in our van to fit all the cans. The bags were up to the ceiling. Here’s a bag that wouldn’t fit. The only space left was for my dad to drive. We’re having a competition with our Cub Scout pack to see who can guess how many cans fit in our van. So, I can’t tell you how many yet. But, I’ll give a hint. It’s in the thousands. At 10 cents a piece in Michigan, these cans really add up to being worth some money! We’re still returning the cans we got that day.
Keenan and I posed with this Trek racing bike when we were at an event celebrating a lot of people who raised the most money for the Trek 100. Keenan and I both ride mountain bikes with hybrid tires on them. My dad says that road bikes for kids our size are too expensive. I dream of when I can have a bike like this one!
These are only a few of the riders. There were three thousand three hundred of them who put on their helmets and road their bikes to fight childhood cancer. Most of them were adults. I was amazed at how fast the adults were riding even when the ones doing the 100 mile ride were going fast at the end. Keenan likes food a lot. They had great food at the rest stops. I like coffee. Starbucks made me my first frappuccino at the end of the ride. It was even free. YUMM!
Here is Keenan leading our charge in the Trek 100 Ride for Hope. It was a great day for the most part. We did get stormed on for a while. Two of the hills beat me and I ended up pushing my bike those times. This was our first organized ride. I want to do more of them. My dad was glad to get to ride on some hills. It is really flat where we live!
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There were so many people riding in the Trek 100 Ride for Hope that they ran out of parking at the college campus where the ride started. It’s kind of funny to think that you would need to catch a ride on a chartered bus to get to the start of the bike ride. They stored our bikes underneath the bus. The bus ride was really nice when my legs were so tired after thirty-two hilly miles in Wisconsin. Keenan and I are thinking about doing the sixty mile ride next year!
In this story, the dealer bought the bike from the customer. The guy wearing black is Lance Armstrong! The other guy is a bike dealer who sold Lance Armstrong his first Schwinn bicycle when Lance was a kid.Lance Armstrong rode the bike in the picture, autographed it, and sold it at an auction that benefited the MACC Fund which raises money to fight childhood cancer! The bike dealer in the picture bought it. It sold for almost $40,000. Lance matched the purchase price with a donation of his own. So, all-in-all, the bike raised almost $80,000!
It was really great to hear Lance talk. He is quite generous!
Hi. I’m Connor Tullis. I am eight years old. One of my best friend’s mom died from cancer.
In August, I am going to ride my bike from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie in memory of my friend’s mom. The trip is more than 200 miles—more than 150,000 revolutions for each of my bicycle’s wheels. I hope that each revolution will lead to a cure for cancer.
Too many kids lose parents to cancer. I hope you will join me in the pursuit to cure cancer.
For more information, please logon to www.ManyRevolutions.com
The change you make can lead to revolution!
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