~ The 2007 Eastern NC MS150 Bike Tour ~
~ A Note From RIDER #150 - My 10th Year In A Row ~
~ A Note From RIDER #150 - My 10th Year In A Row ~
Last Thursday I visited the orthopedic surgeon and got the "go-ahead" to attempt this one hundred and fifty mile, two day bike tour. The tour will be the 8th and 9th of September this year. I have recently had a bout with a serious case of degenerative arthritis in my knees and on Thursday I got my very first cortisone injection in my left knee. I told Evelyn the next morning that I felt like a cross between Scooter-Libby and Barry-Bonds, I got a reprieve from the pain I was enduring and would continue to endure and I am now officially on steroids. I guess this also means I'll not be signing up for Le Tour de France.
However, this year, 2007 marks the tenth year in a row that I will have completed the Eastern North Carolina MS150 Bike Tour. This tour is put on annually by the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Two years ago we went over $1,000, 000.00 for the tour and last year we went over $1,200,000.00.
With your help I hope to match and even exceed my fundraising efforts of last year. Last year I raised $1,500.00 which earned me the right to wear the GOLD NUMBER 150. This means that only 149 other riders raised more than I did for this cycling tour.
To help me hang on the Number 150 (or an even lower number) for next year you can send a check made out to the National MS Society to:
Zach Cox
708 Davidson Street
Raleigh, NC 27609
(919) 762-0961
Zach.D.Cox@GMail.COM
Or you can visit the URL "TEN YEARS" and donate online (Here is a shorter URL if that one does not work http://tinyurl.com/3cko92 the text of the URL is http://www.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?pg=personal&fr_id=5520&px=2027130.
Also my training calendar can be found at http://papa.poemy.net/2007_Bike_Rides/index.html.
If you decide to donate to this cause You will receive training update email messages, a personal snail-mail thank you note and a link to the web page I'll put up describing the event itself (with pictures). This is why I refer to this event as a win-win-win thing. I win because I get to achieve a personal fitness goal, the National MS Society wins because they get more money to support the folks in Eastern NC who have MS and they get to spend more money on research, and the folks who donate win because they contribute to this worthy cause.
Thank you,
Zach
Thanks for sharing this Zach. Rabbit and Tangram were a big part of my life in the 90s, and I'm thankful for all the friends I made there. It's unbelievable to all of us I think, but I email with Jon Tulk, Brian Clapper, Steve Sapovits, Rich Simons, Chuck Murcko and Rob Oliver just about every day! I was close with Fred Michini also, who is the only one I know who was at Opsware at the time of the HP takeover. There are many other dear friends from that place I'd love to see again. Many of us feel that there was something special about the Rabbit team. Through the ex-rabbits group, we should plan another reunion, something bigger than a luncheon at the Linn :)
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