It's a Wrap!

The Curtain Closes on Another I Care I Cure I Cycle Ride.  

We have "composed" a Top 10 list for this segment of the ride:

#10   Thanks to the "lighting director" who provided so much sunshine for this ride.

#9     Our "libretto" describing our show is this blog....much more 21st century than a paper booklet.

#8     A "flop" in our world is more literal than on Broadway....Two falls on this segment!

#7     The "green room" could be any one of the hotel rooms that we fall into each night.

#6     Each training ride that Glenn takes throughout the year is like a "dress rehearsal" for the real thing!

#5     There is no "understudy" in this production.  Uncle Glenn rides or the show don't go on!

#4     When we say we are "taking the show on the road", we really mean it  :)

#3     The most important "prop" in our show is Glenn's bike....which is now being "tuned" up post ride.   

#2     We will "reprise" this show next August to complete the East Coast Greenway!

# 1    The "lead players" in this show are important but the people behind the scenes make it all happen!

                                                        That's all of you!

      

 Thanks so very much to all of you who make donations, offer support 

and kind words and who humor us as we continue on this adventure.  The totals are not

yet in for this ride so I will update you when I have them but I wanted to share

some important information from the I Care I Cure website.

This is why "The Show Must Go On"!

The I Care I Cure Childhood Cancer Foundation supports the development of, and raises public awareness about, cutting-edge, targeted therapies for childhood cancer, so that the treatment of childhood cancer will be gentler and more tolerable.   We want to challenge the public’s acceptance that treatment for childhood cancer requires painful and embarrassing side-effects and life-long health disabilities, isolation from friends and family, and short and long-term psychological devastation. By educating the public about scientific breakthroughs in genetic childhood cancer research that are within reach but seriously underfunded, we can quickly raise money to fund research grants and provide seed money to researchers for new studies.

By seeing how close we are to more humane treatment for childhood cancer, we know the public will demand better treatments, NOW.    One more child’s life that is lost to cancer is one too many!

How Your Donation Helps

Not wasting any time at all, I Care I Cure awarded research grants for research that will further our mission of finding gentler treatments for childhood cancer.In 2008, we awarded $25,000 to each of two ground-breaking studies that can lead to targeted, less-invasive therapies for common childhood cancers. In 2009, I Care I Cure funded another $100,000 to Dr. Jeffrey Toretsky at Georgetown University for his targeted therapy research in coordination with Alex’s Lemonade Stand. Then, in 2010 we awarded $265,000 (which was matched by Alex’s Lemonade Stand) to three innovative research studies conducted by Dr. Katherine Matthay, Dr. Andrew Napper, and Dr. Danielle Benoit. For 2011, we just renewed grants to Dr. Benoit and Dr. Matthay and funded new grants to Dr.Mark Chiang at the University of Michigan, Dr. Emmanuel Volanakis at Vanderbilt University, and Dr. Lewis Silverman at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the amount of $490,000 including matched funds from Alex’s Lemonade Stand. Your support continues to allow us to have tremendous impact on the lives of children with cancer and most importantly, provide them with hope for gentler and more targeted treatments.   I Care I Cure has already awarded significant funds in research grants for research that will further our mission of finding gentler treatments for childhood cancer.

To donate go to:
Icareicure.org

Lettuce Tell You About Our Sweet Tomatoes FUNraiser!

We were so pleased and happy that 40 people attended our first 

FUNraiser at Sweet Tomatoes in Atlanta to welcome Uncle Glenn 

home from his most recent ride!  Thank you to all who attended 

and to those who could not but gave us generous donations!

Your friendship and support means so much to us!

Enjoy some photos from this event.....

Flyer that everyone had to present at the restaurant

A little advertising never hurts!

Our host for the evening!

Quiet before the crowds!

Sharon Turner, who used to work with Glenn and
Marilyn Layman, a current staff member, were the
first guests to arrive and were rewarded with t-shirts!

 

Fred and Shay Swayze win the prize for traveling the furthest to join us tonight!

Great to have our old neighbors the Tildens come out to support us tonight!

Brian Krebs and his family came from Alpharetta to join the fun.


 

Ann and Wayne Douglas learned more about I Care I Cure tonight!

Mindy Elkan and her grandson, Max, share a cuddle moment at the event!

So glad that Cheryl and Jeff Eagle were able to make it to the FUNraiser tonight!

Ben and Maizy Needle say "cheese" for the camera!

Miles, Sara and Seth are joined at dinner by Susie Eisert and Shay and
Fred Swayze while Neil and Wendy Kapiloff chat behind them.

Miles enjoyed his meal but the ice cream was his favorite!

Many thanks to Albert Pinto and Lenny and Wendy Kapiloff  for attending!

 

Thanks to the Rabin family for coming out tonight!

Michelle Needle and her girls, Alexis and Remy, are all smiles tonight!

Seth joins Lisa Snodgrass to catch up while enjoying dinner!

New friend and supporter of I Care I Cure, Brian Krebs!

A few moments to catch up with Linda Bernknopf!

Lenny Thurschwell stopped by to visit and lend support!

Rachael and Jack Rosenberg join the fun!

Family is so important to us and I Care I Cure has a special place in our hearts!
Seth, Sara, Lynn, Glenn, Miles and Neil

One more blog post will be coming later this week to wrap up!

End Bike Route.....for 2012

The bike trips for 2012 have come to an end!

Sunday was the last riding day of this segment.

Glenn rode 51.89 miles from Providence to Boston.

His riding time was 4:02 minutes with 2620 ft. of ascent.

He expended 2553 calories which were quickly replaced

at Wagamama at Faneuil Hall!  We departed from

Boston after lunch and headed south to CT where

we spent Sunday night.   Monday morning we continued our drive 

south to visit a childhood friend, Jackie Gindoff Aufseeser, in Wayside, NJ.  

Jackie and Lynn
So much history in this friendship!

Jackie and Glenn

After a quick visit to check on Glenn's dad in NJ, we headed back to Maryland to spend

Yom Kippur with Jill, Shahak, Benji and Evan. Wishing an easy fast to those who celebrate!

Back to the Real World
Happy to be back to bus stop duty with Benji this AM!

Just plain "PA" here in Maryland.
Glenn "the machine" Hirsch is resting his bike for a few days!

Wrapping up

The trivia question the other day asked what the most common
street name in the US is.  The winner, Natalie Nicholson,
knew that it is 2nd street/avenue.  Thanks to everyone who played along!

The total number of miles for this segment of the ride is 385.1!

We are very excited to share the news that Uncle Glenn's Ride 2012
including the May ride and this recent ride has raised $2576.00
for I Care I Cure thanks to the generosity of so many of our
friends and family members.  We hope to add a few more dollars to
that total at our Welcome Home Uncle Glenn Event in Atlanta
on Tuesday, October 2 at the Sweet Tomatoes on
Peachtree-Dunwoody Road near Perimeter Mall.

If you can join us, just print this flyer and bring it with you.  
If you can't print from here, let me know and I will email the original flyer to you!
Order dinner and a drink and Sweet Tomatoes will donate 20% of your
total bill to I Care I Cure!   Such an easy way to make a donation!
We'll be there from 5:30 to 7:30 to greet you.



Thanks so much for your support!   We appreciate it more than we can say!
There may be a blog or two in the next few weeks but I will be back daily
next August when we begin the final leg of I Care I Cure I Cycle on
the East Coast Greenway when we journey from Boston to
Calais, Maine at the Canadian Border.
We've come a LONG way from Key West, Florida!

Mission Accomplished!

Boston or Bust!

Taking off from Providence...this is a wonderful
backdrop for the departure photo this morning.

The campuses of Brown University and Rhode Island
School of Design are right up the hill.
Had some rain last night but the sun is shining now!

Providence is a very bike friendly city.  Atlanta could take
some notes on how things are done here!

Glenn checked out the cue sheets for his ride from
Providence to Boston and found that the route was more than
100 miles and northwest to Worcester before heading to
Boston.  He consulted his GPS and google maps and found a more direct route
which avoided Worcester and was about 52 miles...a much better
choice for today.   The weather was beautiful and the ride was uneventful.


Notes from Glenn
There were two vehicles that kept my mind occupied today.  One was a truck that had decals for what I presumed was that fan's favorite teams: San Francisco 49ers, Boston Celtics, NY Mets and the Montreal Canadiens.  I thought that person would be interesting to chat with to get his explanation of how he became attached to teams so geographically spread apart.  The other was a car and I wondered what political statement the driver was trying to make as tied to the roof was a huge stuffed animal dog wearing a T-shirt that said "shame on us."  The quality of the roads was not that good today and I had to focus to avoid another spill and fortunately that did not happen.


T-Shirt Trivia 
Here is the last trivia question for this segment.  Glenn noted that there
seemed to be a Main Street in every town we visited.  Without using the internet for
research.....Is this the most common street name in the nation or is it something else?
By the way, the house that was pictured on the day through Hartford was the home of Mark Twain.
No winner for that question so we have shirts for future winners!

My view of Boston as I drove in from Providence!

Glenn's view of the Charles River as he pedaled into Boston!

 

Mission Accomplished!
Glenn rode into Cambridge happy to
have completed another leg of the ride!

Our celebratory lunch at Wagamamas in Faneuil Hall in Boston.

Glenn's computer is on his bike in the car tonight so the stats for
today as well as the total mileage for the trip will have to wait
for tomorrow.  Today was an early day so we were able to
make a few stops in Connecticut on our way southward.
Of course, this meant time to visit a few more folks along the way!

 Glenn's parents always instilled in him the importance of family so
we took some time to visit with Jack and Fran Cohen in CT today.
Jack was Glenn's mom's first cousin and always a family favorite!

We credit Facebook and my blog posts there for this reunion with
George and Marsha Carfi, friends from Atlanta who have
moved to CT.  Marsha saw on FB that we were in New England
and George wrote us a message just in time to catch us on
the way back from Boston!  Great to catch up!

Late night here! We'll have one or two more blogs this week to wrap things up!
Thanks for following our journey once again and many thanks
for your kinds words, support and donations.

More tomorrow or Tuesday!

Happy Fall....The Season Not a Bicycle Accident!

Cool, Crisp Morning in Connecticut

Heading out on this chilly, foggy morning.
Frima and Glenn get in the spirit of the ride
with their I Care I Cure I Cycle shirts
while Bert wears his Georgia shirt!

I sometimes mention the "Cue Sheets" that Glenn follows on the ride.
Here is an example.  He downloads and prints them from the
East Coast Greenway site and uses them as guides each day.

Heading out of Willimantic, CT at 9:15 AM with temps in
the upper 40's!   Before leaving, Glenn had to fix the clips on his
shoes and pump up his tires.  Lots to do each morning before
getting on the road.  Off to Providence!

From the seat of Glenn's bike

Frog Bridge in Willimantic, CT

"Why frogs, you ask? (And why wouldn’t you?)

Well, rather than the birthplace of Kermit or an area with a high French population, Willimantic is known as being home of the infamous “Battle of the Frogs” in 1754. To paraphrase the legend: One hot summer night, the good people of Windham (which Willimantic is now part of) were roused from their sleep by “a shrieking, clattering thunderous roar” unlike anything they had ever heard before. Fearing that it was either an Indian attack or Judgement Day, the townsfolk freaked out and began to panic — some ran through the streets brandishing muskets, others fell to their knees in frantic prayer. Some cooler heads finally prevailed and went in search of the ungodly noises, but to no avail. Only the next morning when the sun came up, did they find the source of the horrendous cacaphony — a nearby pond, down to no more than a puddle thanks to the dry summer, was ringed with scores of dead bullfrogs. Apparently, some sort of frog turf war had broken out and the carnage was excessive . . . but not as excessive as the embarrassment the citizens of Windham were to endure over the next few decades.  But as the years passed, the denizens of Windham/Willimantic embraced the frog legend — a frog now appears on the official town seal. So when it came time to build the new bridge, the town leaders decided to get hoppy with it and put the town’s unique stamp on it. Hence, the frogs."    From Internet after googling Frog Bridge :)

 Connecticut on the East Coast Greenway.
One minute there was a trail, the next was this scenic Dead End!

Same body of water from the other side of the bridge

Welcome to state # 12!   
This might be my favorite state....I do LOVE the Ocean!


Glenn improvised much of today's ride with the use of his GPS on his
telephone.  He enjoyed pedaling through the rural areas in CT and RI 
passing rivers and lakes with some autumn colors on the trees.  The area
was not as hilly as he expected and he was able to ride a bit faster today.

He covered 69.51 miles in 5 hours and 1 minute of actual riding time.
He won't be able to chow down quite as much tonight since he only
used up 3466 calories today.  The elevation gain today was 3346.
I was happy to see him ride in to our hotel in downtown
Providence at 4 PM, the earliest day so far!

This must be the right way!
There is an East Coast Greenway sign....
small but it is there!

When Glenn and I began this journey, we reached out to the East Coast Greenway 

office for advice and support.  Our contact there happens to live in Providence so we 

just had to try to see him.  Eric Weis, the Trail Program Coordinator, came to 

the hotel to meet us and hopes to ride with Glenn in the morning as he heads out of Providence.

Lynn,  Eric's daughter Violet, Eric and Glenn

We are overwhelmed by the generosity of our friends and family as we

continue this journey.  Each day we receive a note from the I Care I Cure

office about a donation made in honor of Uncle Glenn's ride.  I'll

try to provide a total by Monday to let you know our total to date for 2012.

If your life has been touched by someone with childhood cancer and

you want to help I Care I Cure fund research to find targeted

therapies that would provide gentler and less toxic treatments,

just click here and donate in honor of Uncle Glenn's ride:

 https://www.icareicure.org/donate-step-0/

 Tomorrow is the last leg of ride for this year.   

Boston or Bust!