Kick-off Breakfast Poster

Here is the poster for the RE/MAX Centre City – Tour de North Kickoff Breakfast. Everyone is invited! Please come down next Friday morning and join us.  The breakfast is by donation with all proceeds going directly to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Date: Friday, September 11th, 2009

Place: RE/MAX Centre City Parking Lot – 1675-15th Avenue-PG, BC

Time: 7:30-10:00 am

Riders Arrive at 8:45 am and some head shavings and events are planning during this time.

Hope to see you there! Have a fantastic long weekend everyone!

Great news! The story that ran in the Free Press made the “Thumbs Up Story” of the week.  Glad to know that the community is so behind such a worthy cause.

Very proud to say as well, that I’ve starting to close in on the 50% mark of my fundraising goal. All thanks to the kind support of you all!

Here’s a copy of the “Thumbs Up” article:

I want to say a HUGE “Thank you” to everyone who is supporting/has supported me in the Tour de North ride. Right now I’m a little over 25% of the way there! Please check out my donation page to see the progress. Just click on the link below to go to the Canadian Cancer Society website. Have a great weekend everyone. Enjoy the summer weather.

http://copsforcancer.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=310592&supid=260772095

Here is the 2009 Tour de North Route and Dates. This is from the Canadian Cancer Society website.

2009 Tour de North Route & Dates   The Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer (Tour de North) is a 7 day cycling event by RCMP and emergency services personnel along Highway 16 through communitites from Prince George to Prince Rupert.
Friday, September 11 Prince George to Vanderhoof  ~100 km
Saturday, September 12 Vanderhoof to Fort St. James to Fraser Lake ~160 km
Sunday, September 13 Fraser Lake to Burns Lake ~71 km
Monday, September 14 Burns Lake to Houston to Smithers ~145km
Tuesday, September 15 Smithers to Hazelton ~75 km
Wednesday, September 16 Hazelton to Terrace ~140 km
Thursday, September 17 Terrace to Prince Rupert ~147 km

This excellent article was in the Prince George Free Press August 18th, 2009. Thank you Alistair McInnis for writing a great article! This highlights my training progress a little bit more, as well as the background of my motivation. Please click on the link below to read this:

http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/monitor.cgi?paper=26&id=1607924

Have a great day everyone! Be sure to check in frequently for more updates.

Here are the stats for RE/MAX Centre City Realty in Prince George for July 2009.  Way to go RE/MAX!

On a side note, I am planning on a ride out to Ness Lake this Sunday. If you see me riding, be sure to wave! Any encouragement is welcome. Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

These are the latest pictures taken of me in training. Thank you to the Canadian Cancer Society who took them. I am training at the Hart Fitness Studio with my EXCELLENT (notice how it’s capitalized) trainer Chantelle Desharnais.  Chantelle is going to whip me into shape!

Core Training

Core Training

Today I received an excellent letter from Margaret Jones-Bricker on behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society. It had some information in it that I found very valuable and wanted to share it with everyone. Thank you for the letter Margaret!

“Overall, incidence of childhood cancer has remained relatively stable since 1985 (varying from 144 to 159 per one million children). During the same period there had been a dramatic decline in childhood cancer death rates (dropping from approximately 40 to 20 per million children).

Since the early 1950s, death rates for childhood cancers have dropped by more than 50 per cent thanks to major advances in treatment; currently, approximately 80 per cent of Canadian children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia are alive five years after diagnosis.”

It just goes to show that what we are doing by fundraising is making an impact on the lives of these children and their families. Your part does make a difference to the lives of children impacted by cancer (and their families). Thanks to your donations more than 50 northern children and their families have been able to attend Camp Goodtimes (since 2003).

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