Archive for the ‘Team Stories’ Category

Team members Tom Vogel and Joseph Fritsche along with Honorary members Dave Kristjansen and Sang Lee are on there way to Penn Station to begin their ride to Montauk!! When most people are coming home from the bars. Team Autism is getting ready to ride 145 miles!! More to come.

Just returned from a 7 mile run in the snow, through the slush and many puddles. Cars where honking and people where looking at me like I was nuts. I also experience what runners call “the zone” or “runner high” , I was running and cars where splashing me, I was running through puddles, slush ans snow and I LOVED every minute of it.

It made me think and ask the following question? What is your favorite running story, or type of run. Running til you puke? Running with the rain dripping off the front of a running hat? Hitting a turn and accelerating through and out of the turn? Seeing someone in front of you, bearing down and catching them? passing someone on their bike?

Love to hear some stories. Please post it on the JT Foundation Facebook page or better yet on the JT Foundation Blog. http://thejtfoundation.com/wordpress/

This slide show is awesome: I hope you’ll check it out:

http://www.inspiration365movie.com/

Then also please check out www.thejtfoundation.org. My friend John, who sent this inspirational link to me, founded the JT Foundation in honor of his adorable son, JT. They raise money and awareness to fight autism by racing.

I to form a racing team for JT Foundation and would like to find people who would like to train for and participate with me in sprint triathlons (5K, 20-mile bike ride, short swim) and other short races and relays next racing season (not to be confused with mammoth Iron Man triathlon lengths). 

We can start training now. It’s a great way to get in shape. And we have plenty of time to start real slow from a walk to a run and onward. I also will share a great new book by friend Deirdre Pitney, “Triathlon Training for Dummies,” an easy guide that makes it so possible to race (even if you’re not in really great shape now). I also can teach you my Fight4Life total fitness interval program that will make you an even stronger racer and totally fit.

I pray you’ll join me, so we can start finding answers about autism and stop its spread. 66 children are diagnosed with Autism…… 1 in every 150 children!
Autism is now  more prevalent in children than pediatric cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined!

Please help!
Blessings,
B

Last weekend Ed McDonnel and I whewre out for a ride - me in front and him only a few feet off my wheel.  Per my Garmin, we were doing 27 mph on a straight road with a slight downhill when out of nowhere some a-hat passes us on the left (ok) and then turns immediately F1 style onto a side street to the right – crossing just off my front wheel (not ok).  I braked as hard as I could to avoid hitting him.  Ed did as well, but in doing so he crashed hard.  The guy drove off, but there were so many cars stopped that he thought better of it and returned.