This year (this weekend) I am biking for a fund-raising event organized by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
It’s an approx 45-mile cycle ride from Volvo Trucks (7900 National Service Rd, Greensboro, NC 27409) to Tanglewood Park on Sat Sep 6; and same way back on Sun Sep 7. That’s my part of the job. :)
I am also raising some funds which will go into research for the cure of MS and betterment of MS patients. For that second part of the job, I need the help of you guys. I initial goal was just $200 and with the help of many friends, as of now the donation on my behalf had reached $235!
Before you donate, here is some information on Multiple Sclerosis, a brief understand of what this disease actually is.
We all know that our bodies have an electrical circuit, our nervous system. Just as electrical wiring need insulators, so do the nerves. The nerves have an insulating fatty substance called Myelin [3] [4]. MS causes the body defense to attack Myelin sheaths around nerves which can cause damage to nerves, interference in nerve conduction, and many things. Taking from the MS site, the symptoms of this disease are fatigue, numbness, walking/balance problems, bladder/bowel/sexual dysfunction, vision, dizziness, depression,… and the list goes on. Basically whatever the brain does, whatever the nerves help in doing that, is affected as signal conduction from the brain is affected.
As of now there is no cure for MS. All we can do is do more research in this area to get a cure and provide alleviating medication and emotional support to the patients. The National MS Society does this and in order to get better at that, it organizes events such as this one.
To know more about MS,if you’ve not already clicked, you can click on the hyper-links 1 to 4 above.
You can contribute as much or as little as you want by going to this page: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?px=4431564&pg=personal&fr_id=9011 and clicking on “Donate to Kaushal”.
Just note that donating even $5 with not only add something to donation pool, but will also add a warm fuzzy feeling to your heart. :)
Here are the routes that I will be riding on this weekend.
Day 1: September 6, 2008 Saturday (47.31 miles)
Volvo Trucks, Greensboro, NC to Tanglewood Park, Clemmons, NC
Greensboro to Tanglewood Park
Day 2: September 7, 2008 Sunday (43.01 miles)
Tanglewood Park, Clemmons, NC to Volvo Trucks, Greensboro, NC
Tanglewood Park to Greensboro
OK then, I’ll let you know how my bike ride went. See you then :D
Update 1: List of things to take for this bike ride.
Update 2: Sat ride canceled due to stupid Hanna :( Now all I have is 25/50/75 miles option for Sunday. Thinking: 50mi or 75mi?
New Schedule of Events
Friday, September 5
5-8 pm
Rider Check-In, Volvo Trucks North America
7900 National Service Rd, Greensboro
Saturday, September 6
Noon-4 pm
Tanglewood Festivities (more details to follow)
Sunday, September 7
6:00 am
Rider Check-in, Volvo Trucks North America
7900 National Service Rd, Greensboro
Team Photos
8:00 am
START
25, 50, 75 mile options available
Route sheets will be posted on website by Friday at 5:00 pm
10:30 am
First cyclists arrive back at Volvo
11:00 am
Lunch served at Volvo
Silent Auction
Vintage Tanglewood Merchandise Sales
Massages Available
Update 3:
New 75-mile route
Update 4:
Finished the bike ride on Sunday. Could do only 50 miles instead of the targeted 75 miles. Bike ride stats in a new post… Coming soon!
