Friday October 2nd was LIVESTRONG DAY across the world and since I was no longer crewing the Furnace 508 (rider injured, but ok) I took the day to promote this grass roots cause.
We had 3 rides starting at Bicycle John's Agoura Hills shop. First one at 7:30 a.m. to Malibu Lake, next one at noon was the Kanan city loop, and last one at 5:15 p.m to Westlake to allow working people to fit it in. All rides were one hour.
Jennifer (owner of Bicycle John's) and I worked hard to pull it all together considering we had 24 hours. Jen made the great flyer above and some awesome brownies for snack. ..then she bought pizza for all the hungry staff after a long, busy day::)) Even her daughters came out to ride: Camille, Katie, Sarah, and their friend Lindsay--yeah go girls!
I got busy sending the annoucement to the WomenCyclist list while hubby Robb cooked up a batch of Mom's HI-NRG bars::) He also was photographer extraordinaire throughout the day, uploading and creating smilebox slideshows for those to see via Facebook, Twitter, etc.
All in all it was a great success with 30 or so riders showing up throughout the day and more cyclists who came by to say hello or add a little to the LIVESTONG pot.
Look for this event next year..mark the date Oct. 2nd 2010--with a year to plan who knows what might happen!
Until then check out the video:
Ride on,
RaeLynn
