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Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program (BORP) is the Charity! While leading up to the 30for30th I plan to help raise a bit of money for a great non profit that does some stellar work. Based in Berkeley, BORP is the leading provider and promoter of accessible sports and recreation opportunities for children and adults with physical disabilities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. BORP has a variety of recreation programs for people with disabilities ranging from Adaptive cycling, goal ball, power soccer, wheelchair basketball and numerous outdoor adventures. Every year in September BORP organizes a bicycle ride called the Revolution. The ride has routes ranging from 10-100 miles and attracts hundreds of able bodied and disabled riders every year to get together, ride bikes, eat some food and raise money for BORP. BORP seemed like the perfect fit and after meeting the leaders of the organization this was confirmed. I am excited to work with BORP for the 30for30th ride and inspired by the success and impact they have in the community:From the BORP website:Government Data:        

     .A disabled student is twice as likely as his or her non-disabled peer to drop out of school, become a pregnant teen, or abuse drugs and alcohol.         

     .A disabled teenage girl is twice as likely to commit suicide as her non-disabled peers.        

     . 73% of disabled adult Americans are unemployed.         

"Over the past 10 years, 98% of BORP's youth alumni have graduated from high school. Over 80% have gone on to college. Over 70% are employed. These statistics are in sharp contrast with national data on disabled populations, and are particularly impressive given the fact that the majority of our participants come from low-income households." 

After a great brainstorming session last Thursday we all came up with some great ideas to make the ride a success, the details will unfold in the next couple weeks.  In the meantime check out the video below from last year's Revolution ride and the BORP site to see how incredible they really are: www.borp.org

 
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Turning 30 feels kinda weird. I guess I'm trying to do something to deflect or minimize the weird. I turn 30 on April 3rd 2010 and instead of going on a bender and wonder what happened to my 20's I'm going to get on my bike and wonder what happened to my 20's. To ring in the 3rd decade of life I plan on biking for 30 hours straight. Stupid? Possibly. Possible? I don't know. I won't know until I get on my bike. Right now I know the hardest thing will be dealing with the saddle, it's going to be a battle with my brain and the spot that connects me with the bike. I've done long, challenging rides before, in the summer of 2007 I biked with my college roommate Brent Maddog Thomas across the country from the Outer Banks in my birth state of North Carolina to San Francisco where I currently live, overall we biked 68 days and almost 4,000 miles, raising $11,500 for the Lance Armstrong Foundation in the process. That said, the longest day while riding across the country was probably 14-15 hours and those were some monster days, one of them was in Kansas, ahh Kansas... Add 15-16 more hours to that and biking through the night and now we're talking serious challenge. I don't really know exactly "why" I'm doing it, I guess the best answer is because I want to. I know I'll learn something that's for sure and I figure that's the most important thing anyone can take from anything, is learning something you didn't know before. I have no idea what to expect, how I'll feel, what I'll hallucinate, but I think I can do it, so I'm gonna try. 

My buddies Brent and Micah ran 30 miles together on their 30th's this past October, which is pretty awesome. Brent is going to accompany me through the night which will be super helpful because that's when I'll be digging deep.I'm excited, nervous and really ready for the rainy season to be over...I plan to raise a bit of money for charity leading up to the ride, I'll have more details on that soon. 

Check in here to see what's going on, I'll be posting stories, gear, thoughts and insight as I prep for this gnarly adventure. 6 weeks to go. I can't wait.  

Drop me a line.  

As a refresher, here's the final video of our Bike Trip across:

    DONE!


    $5,198!
    (so far)


    6AM Saturday April 17th
    to 
    12 PM Sunday April 18th

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    Do what?

    I turn 30 this April 2010. To ring in the new decade I plan to ride my bike for 30 hours straight raising funds for a great organization.

    www.BORP.org


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    Leading up to the ride I'm raising money for a great organization called Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program (BORP)
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    The summer of 2007 I bicycled across the country with my college roommate Brent, from the coast of North Carolina to San Francisco, where I live now. We raised $11,500 for the Lance Armstrong Foundation in the process: www.biketripblog.com


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