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Racing
Against
Diabetes
Foundation, Inc. |
2007 RAD TOUR OF
AMERICA
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Racing
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_____________ Join us and Race
against Diabetes! (free
T-shirts!) (This
doesn’t require money, it requires a promise to train . . . !) |
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Here’s Why Again: 15-22
million people in the U.S. have diabetes—but it gets worse—much worse: One in
every three babies born in the U.S. today will get diabetes in their
lifetime—and now many will get “adult-onset” diabetes as kids! We can—and must—change that!! Diabetes
can and does cause kidney failure,
blindness, amputations, heart disease, nerve damage . . . and more. Diabetes
is the 5th leading cause of death in the U.S., not counting its contribution
to heart disease, the #1 killer. Diabetes
hurts everyone, but especially the families of diabetics. The
epidemic rise in incidence of diabetes in the U.S. comes from our failure to
get into training to race against it.
Most cases of diabetes can be prevented by very moderate weight loss. |
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What
Next? —The 2007 RAD Tour of America: OK . . . how do we get
everyone’s attention about the epidemic.
How do we start a revolution? We bike-raced the Race Across America in 2006 as a
two-person team—but didn’t get to stop and talk about preventing
diabetes. So beginning June 10, 2007,
Patty will race the RAAM solo
from Oceanside CA to Atlantic City NJ, to get attention for Racing Against
Diabetes, and because she’s crazy enough to try it. Patty will definitely need your help cheering her on during the
RAAM! Then Terry will drive and ride
back across the country and stop to meet everyone he can, and talk about
preventing the diabetes epidemic. He
also wants you to join him for a short ride—and maybe finish with a sprint?! Well . . . that’s this year’s
plan. Think it’ll work? It’s the “good next step” we
can manage this year, at least.
(Remember Coaches Terry and Patty are paying for the Tour from their
own pockets—plus they have full-time jobs.
So that’s it for this year.)
We hope it’ll get a lot of people a chance to learn how to prevent the
epidemic—and that it’ll get a lot of teams started. Publicity sure won’t hurt, so we’re hoping to get as much of
that as we can—we do have to start a revolution! During “Stage Two” of the 2007
RAD Tour of America, Terry wants to meet you and talk about preventing the
diabetes epidemic, and he also hopes you’ll do a short ride with him, and
maybe sprint with him if you want to beat a slow, old guy. (Watch out--he’s trying to set you up here
. . . !) We’ll need your help to line
up someone in every city, town, and crossroad—and every church, clinic and
bike shop. We’ll give away T-shirts to
everyone who pledges to train with their team—until we run out of
T-shirts. –We’ll probably have to
mail the T-shirts out when we’re home, so we don’t have to lug them across
the country. (You can help us buy
more T-shirts to give away, so we don’t run out of T-shirts until everyone
has one—that’s part of how we’ll win the Race Against Diabetes. Please see our “Join Us!” page if you can
help that way.) Patty’s route in the RAAM is
set—it’s the same as last year’s RAAM.
She’ll start from Oceanside, California on Sunday, June 10th,
and has to finish in Atlantic City, New Jersey by Friday, June 22nd. You can see why she’ll need your cheering along the way! –Here’s a rough map
of the route, and here’s a spreadsheet of expected
arrival times along the route.
Realistically, Patty should be just making the “Solo Last Arrival
Times” listed—hey, she’s 60 years old, give her a break! (Note that the times are all listed in
Eastern Daylight Time, so you’ll have to convert them until she gets to the
Eastern time zone.) Please come out
and cheer her on! Terry finally found time to
plan a route and daily schedule for his New Jersey-to-San Diego ride
home: click here to see
it. We’re also sending out flyers to
clinics and bike shops in the towns Terry will go through, to try to get help
meeting everyone along the way. __________________________ We think you can tell:
we’re serious about doing this to get you and everyone training for
the race of our lives, the Race Against Diabetes. We can win the race against diabetes! We
must! |
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