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The cycling blog is done, but blogging about cycling will continue.
Where?
Good Question.
The new Adventure Guys blog.
In this new blog, Adventure editor Jeffrey P. Mayor and I will write about our adventures, misadventures and insights in the outdoors, keep you up to date on the latest news and answer your questions.
Talk to you over there,
Craig Hill
If you haven't noticed, this blog has been retired. The plan was for this cycling blog to run for the duration of our STP Project, which painfully concluded in July.
But stay tuned. A new blog from the Adventure team is coming soon.
Thanks for reading,
Craig Hill
I recently received an e-mail from Paul Payton, director of communication for the American Lung Association, informing me of yet another local couple planning to leave on a cross-country pedal this month.
Greg & Trish Dimmitt from Orting are leaving June 25 to ride their tandem with 40 other people in the American Lung Association's Big Ride Across America.
Payton writes: "The Dimmitt's love to ride their tandem together, but they are also very involved with raising funds and awareness about living with lung disease, as they have lost loved ones to the diseases. To date, the Dimmitt's have raised more than $17,000 with the support of family, friends and probably many in the Tacoma and Pierce County area."
The Dimmitt's and the other riders leave from Seattle and will ride to Washington D.C.
I get so many letters and phone calls from people who want me to write about them riding across the country that the accomplishment hardly seems newsworthy any more.
That's not to say it's not impressive. It's an amazing accomplishment, something I'd like to try to do some day.
Hopefully this blog will give me a chance to give more of these people a little attention.
While I can't write about everybody who tries this, because I just mentioned an Olympic snowboarder who leaves today to ride from Anacortes to Maine, I figure I better let you know that four students - three from WSU and one from the UW - leaving Seattle tomorrow to pedal to Washington D.C.
Click below to read the press release from ride organizers:
Jayson Hale of the U.S. Snowboarding team will bike across the U.S. in 60 days starting from Anacortes. His trip will be filmed for a documentary.
Here's the release from U.S. Snowboarding.
