THANK YOU

I want to thank everyone that helped and supported along the way on this successful adventure. John Ormsby, Kaia Burkett, Markham Connolly and Michael Cross at BORP for helping foster this idea into a reality. Thank you to all the adaptive cyclists that came out and rode in the last hour with me, you are such an inspiration and I wish you luck in your training for the Revolution ride! Thanks to Scot Goodman the BORP photographer for capturing some great moments on the journey and providing a smiling face around the next corner. Thanks to the sponsors that provided amazing equipment and support for the ride! Thanks to Tommy for driving with me and Brent during the night, he literally kept the headlights behind us the whole time which I can't tell you how much safer we felt and faster the night went, not to mention he's a mean DJ. Thanks to Brent for sweating it out over the night portion, it was a long cold and exciting night, but he's a dude you can always rely on. I can honestly say the night portion would have been 2-3 times harder without those guys out there. Thanks to my wife Melissa for her patience as I prepped for this pretty crazy thing and for her support and encouragement leading up to and all day Saturday and Sunday during the ride. She is incredible, I am so grateful for her and she recruited a great little helper to ride with her along the way named Matilda! And finally thanks to everyone that called, emailed, texted, facebooked, and followed online during the ride, I could feel the good thoughts and energy and would occassionally see the comments etc. come through on my phone. Most importantly thank you to everyone that believed and donated to BORP for this event, I can't thank you enough. They are truly an amazing organization with talented staff and inspiring participants in their programs, I was honored to be a part of BORP and look forward to doing the Revolution Ride in October!

More blog and photo entries to come about the actual ride!