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1000 Mile Cycling Challenge - Japan - 2020 - Cancer Research Fund
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1000 Mile Cycling Challenge - Japan - 2020 - Cancer Research Fund
Next year my friend (Sam Atter) and me (Hayden Stobbs) want to do something challenging for our 30th birthdays by pushing ourselves to the absolute limit. For the past year, we have been training to complete a 1000 mile cycling tour from Hiroshima to Tokyo in March 2020. As we only have 10 months to go, we thought this was the perfect time to try and raise some money for charity. To test ourselves before our trip to Japan, we will also be completing a smaller 250+ mile segment in the the lake district later this year. If for some reason this turns out to be too difficult for us, then we will adjust the mileage in Japan as necessary. The aim is to complete the challenge over 30 days so to do this, we are going to cycle 50 miles per day, 5 days a week, and spend the weekends resting. We will be recording as much footage as possible, with live blogs wherever we are able to do so. We will be starting from Hiroshima taking winding routes over various smaller islands and mountains before heading back to the mainland towards Tokyo. There is still a lot of planning to do! As of March 1st 2019 our training regime has began to ramp up! I (Hayden) will personally be putting in 1-2 hours per day on Zwift, with the aim to be out on the bike every other weekend for 6-8 hours. The charity we have chosen to raise money for is Cancer Research UK. Whether we like it or not Cancer touches all of our lives, so we thought we'd try and make a positive impact and help those in need a long the way. Many thanks! Sam A + Hayden S PS: Whatever we raise, Cisco will match so we can make an even bigger impact!
Fund the Fight to Find the CURE for Blood Cancers!
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Fund the Fight to Find the CURE for Blood Cancers!
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Fighting Blood Cancers since 1949 "Every 3 minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with blood cancer" There are too many of us who have people in our lives who are currently fighting or have fought battles with cancer. My family has had a personal battle with Myeloma - a Blood Cancer. If you are interested in supporting this cause, please join me, my wife, and family in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to our fundraising campaign supporting the LLS’ vital mission to find a cure and create a world without blood cancer. In my wife Sue’s and my life there have been many, many cancer battles by family and friends. In 1982, I found myself trying to understand how this could possibly be happening to my dad. He was diagnosed with Multiple-Myeloma, a bone and blood cancer with no known cure at the time. He was given 6-months to live by his doctors. His diagnosis became "our" diagnosis. His fight became "our" fight. We are all so grateful for the efforts, hard work, and accomplishments that the doctors, researchers and chemists had already achieved in the battle against Bone and Blood cancers (including the team from LLS). Their efforts allowed my father to take treatments (radiology and chemotherapy) that allowed him to extend his life more than 2-years. Yet we want more for the families that are faced with similar circumstances. We want more for all the patient's that are given the frightening news that they too have cancer. This is why my wife and I are dedicated to help raise the funds needed to allow the men and women of science and medicines to put an end to cancer. We firmly believe we will find a cure for these diseases in our lifetime. We look forward to sharing with our children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, that we all took part in funding that cure! We have joined a team that is working to raise as much funding as possible over the next 10 years to find cures for blood cancer. Funds will not only support LLS research, but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well. If you’d like to support our fundraising efforts, you can: • Donate with your credit card by visiting our fundraising website at http://www.mcardlells.com/ (which links to the LLS fundraising campaign) or • Return a check made payable to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by May 25th to their offices at 4530 Park Road, Suite 240, Charlotte, NC 28209 (please put my name, Kevin McArdle, in the memo line). Donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society are eligible for the VMware Foundation Matching Gifts program. Please retain a copy of your donation receipt in order to request a match. Or should you choose to contribute through the VMware Foundation portal link above, please add a designation with my name (Kevin McArdle). "LLS helped advance 19 of the 21 blood cancer treatments approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) this year." "Over the past two decades, LLS has invested more than $40 million in research at multiple institutions to advance CAR T-cell therapy for blood cancer – paving the way for research applications for solid tumors, such as cancers of the lung, breast, colon and prostate." - Help me Fund the Fight for the CURE!