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Bike Bike Bike - All for a Good Cause Too!
So, from June 1-7, 2008, I'm bicycling in AIDS/LifeCycle 7. Yes, it's a 7-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. While you may think I'm nuts for doing so, it's all to help those with HIV and AIDS live their lives to the fullest. To those of you who have already donated - thank you - you rock and are superstars! Happy Karma from me, and rest assured that your money goes to a good cause by helping those afflicted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic by funding programs of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. I've gotten to know some people who are have the disease and I've come to see that the support services that your donations fund allow them to have and manage the disease, but the disease does not have them. The Ride brings together so many different people (I think about 2,000+ so far) who push themselves for a cause that betters us all. If you can't do the Ride, you can still be apart of the cause by donating, speaking of which.... For those of you who haven't donated, there's still time and, like the fundraising efforts NPR and PBS subject us to, I wanted to include an incentive: A personalized, nearly legible thank you card from yours truly, posted to your mailing address, P.O. Boxes acceptable and Thank-You Mix CD K.Ho
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Kevin's latest blog entry:
Friday, May 16, 2008
Looking Bike-ish, right?
Kevin's Goal: $10,000.00
Current Total: $3,318.00
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Messages of Support for Kevin
Chris "Grizzly Adams" Sunnen (5/29/08 10:20AM): "When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." --Jacob Riis
Remember-you are the hammer!
Yes, I am cheesy! Go K.Ho! Kathy Roberts (4/27/08 4:10PM): Go, Kevin, go! Jenn (3/27/08 1:50PM): Whatever, the biking's easy -- you just wanted an excuse to take the week off work. :) :) :) Annette (3/21/08 7:01PM): Hi Kevin, I'm Annette, rider 1260 from San Francisco. We haven't met but I wanted to say thank you for riding this year. I ride for my brother, Chris, who passed away from AIDS, so I appreciate all the hard work you are doing as well to help put an end to HIV/AIDS. I can hardly wait until all 2500 of us roll into LA. Ride strong and good luck. Annette Steve Feldstein (2/26/08 2:25PM): Good luck buddy! Adam and Jessica MacNeil (2/25/08 6:03PM): Good Luck! Jenny and John Virtue (2/25/08 7:37AM): 'England Expects'! from the Virtue's in Italy Lauren (2/22/08 11:42AM): How can I say no to all that spandex? Good luck! Mavis (2/22/08 10:50AM): lookin pretty ripped! Frank (1/24/08 12:58PM): GOOD LUCK Kevin! Laura (1/17/08 4:04PM): IF I can do it, you can definitely do it! SO many men! Men dancing at every rest stop! So many granola bars!! Don't forget your red dress. Joe (1/12/08 1:12PM): Good luck Kevin! I'm hoping Eric and I can join you for the next one! Orien (12/28/07 4:47PM): Good luck Kevin! We'll be thinking of you on those long training rides ;) Jay (12/27/07 5:08PM): San Francisco to LA? Sheesh - isn't that like, hard? Gary Bresee (11/06/07 3:42PM): Hope you make your goal, Kevin, and good luck. Logan (8/06/07 12:06PM): Yeah! I am stoked you decided to do ALC7!
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Kevin's Links
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Committed to ending the pandemic and human suffering caused by HIV, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation develops innovative solutions, combining scientific evidence with community experience to fight HIV/AIDS and promote health. Established in 1982, the Foundation provides direct services to thousands of people living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS and supplies information to thousands more about HIV prevention and treatment through programs that include the California AIDS Hotline (800-367-AIDS). The Foundation promotes HIV awareness in the community and advocates for sound HIV/AIDS policies at all levels of government.
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, a leader in battling AIDS and caring for those who are HIV-infected since the earliest days of the pandemic, provides free medical care to those who can't afford treatment and distributed more than $21 million worth of free HIV medications last year. The Center also provides one-on-one and group therapy, mobile testing/counseling, education, advocacy, and prevention services. Each month 700-1,000 people are tested for HIV at the Center.
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Kevin's Blog
Friday, May 16, 2008
12:36 PM
A final tune-up that turned into a bike bling opp...
 Heeding advice, I took my bike in early to get a final tune-up. A new chain, checked brakes, the works. While I was sad to be bike-less for Bike-to-Work day, I got a consolation prizea as I spotted new handlebar tape that I'd never seen before: like a candy-cane gone bizerk rastafarian-style, i.e., eye-popping, fun and, hopefully it will make my bike easier to find during the Ride. Hopefully, if I got it right, the image is here, if not, you'll probably see it on the Ride.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
8:23 AM
Battlestar ALC: Training Ride Soundtrack
With rules against headphones, cellphones, and side-by-side riding, what goes through your head on a training ride?
For me, training rides are an interesting mental proposition. Of course, paying attention to the road, other cyclists and cars (and not getting lost) is a big part of it, but when it comes down to it, you have a lot of free time to think or to let your mind drift on a given training ride. Existential issues aside, music often comes to my mind during a training ride, a revolving soundtrack.
Last week, I cracked my tent mate-to-be/riding buddy James up by singing bits of Mary J. Blige’s “Just Fine” (Fine, fine, fine, fine – whooo!) while going up the backside of Camino Alto on the Bride of CAT 2 ride. Mary was with me for a bit of the ride along with others.
This week, with the Marin Headlands, Paradise Road and Camino Alto, however, my inner geek showed up as music from Battlestar Galatica (deemed the best show on TV you’re not watching) popped into my head. James was baffled, but curious as to what type of music could come from a Sci-Fi show. The tune stuck in my head is a recursive one and is hard to describe but, as James indicated after I explained the show’s premise, seemed to be fitting for an epic journey. My description to James boiled down to this: show could be set anywhere at any time as it’s hot, smart and brilliant. It just happens to be set in space. BSG (shorthand for a ship that is a ‘battlestar’ called Galatica) features humans searching for a new home after theirs is destroyed by machines they created called Cylons, who evolve to look, feel and think like, well, humans. The trick becomes determining a Cylon from a human. Essentially, the show is about struggle, hope and relationships. Kind of like the Ride, don’t you think?
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Friday, April 4, 2008
8:18 AM
An ALC Thank You Playlist/Mix
The promise of a Thank You Mix CD, perhaps, pushed me over the $2,500. That or maybe it was people's simple generosity. Sure, it's physical media but I think the promise of a PBS-style thank you gift helped. Anyway, I was asked on a training ride last what I put on the mix. Here's the playlist:
- We Just Won't Be Defeated The Go! Team
- Bicycle Race Queen
- Zazie fait de la bicyclette Plastiscines
- Show Me What Ya Got Jay-Z
- Get Myself Into It The Rapture
- Heartbeat Tahiti 80
- Go! Common
- Stay Out All Night Bent
- Lost Love Sir Simon Rattle & the Berlin Philharmonic
- Whoo! Alright, Yeah,... Uh Huh The Rapture
- Falling Slowly Once - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
- Glamorous Fergie
- Because of You (remix feat Kayne West) Ne-Yo & Kanye West
- Seven Days in Sunny June Jamaroquai
- Love Like This Natasha Bedingfield
- Champion Kanye West
- What You Thought You Need Jack Johnson
- Defying Gravity Wicked
- Impatient (feat Dante Santiago) will.i.am
- Just a Ride Jem
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
11:30 AM
Bike Bike Bike - Sore Sore Sore
So sore! Even the foam roller doesn't help!
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