Another great race is in the books: the Dalmac bike tour from Lansing, MI, to Mackinaw city, MI, a distance of 322 miles. Bike tours like this are a blast, and I would encourage anyone that loves a) challenging athletic endeavors and b) serious tailgating, to try one. These rides last for a few days, [...]
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In my last post, I was fortunate to talk with Megan Buller about her upcoming bike ride across the country, from San Diego to Washington DC: that’s right, 3500+ miles from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. Well, she is nearing departure time, so I thought it fit to ask her a few more questions [...]
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Ride for World Health is a nonprofit organization that advocates for improvements in the quality and accessibility of global healthcare. To accomplish this goal, R4WH organizes a cross-country bike ride that works to promotes advocacy and fundraising, and spearheads a pretty cool lecture series along the way. Take a look at the webpage and you [...]
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—continued from previous post— I folded my Two Weeks shirt and put it back in my drawer, and at this point had thoroughly tainted all these people’s future accomplishment by assessing their behavior by a different standard. I had missed the essence of what they were doing: ironically, participating in one of the few cross-culturally [...]
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U2′s Bono, with the help of Bobby Shriver, created (Product) RED in the hopes of engaging the “marketing prowess and funds” of the private sector to fight against HIV and AIDS in Africa. Different businesses have teamed up with (Product) RED, marketing their normal products either in the color red, with a picture of Africa, or with [...]
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Pretty freakin’ malarious, if you ask me.
It started out as this sharp, nauseating pain in my lower back, like a horse had just kicked me in the kidneys. Then my stomach would churn, my temperature would climb, and the chills would run the length of my body. As I broke out into a torrent of sweat, I begged my wife to [...]
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