We are now halfway through the month's challenge & have experienced all the different weather that mother nature could throw at us. Last Thursday's mid 30's with hot winds to the next day with rain & a top of 13. When the rain hit I was about 15km from home & seeing as I wasn't going to get any wetter I continued on & completed the 70km ride that I'd planned. The only constant has been the wind, e v e r y day.
The good news is that nationally we have now raised over $2M as of this morning! Your help has been awesome, thank you very much. Your donations through me are now at $5053 (79%), of the $6411 target, awesome! I thank everyone of you for getting behind me & this great cause.
We still have a long way to go, me another 794km & a 10km running race this weekend at Mclaren Vale.
Further donations of $1358 to reach target of $6411.
Cancer sucks so lets kick it's butt.
It's for the kids however all sufferers will benefit.
These are a few highlight photos from the interesting routes that I have ridden in the past week. Enjoy.
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Well day one was a washout so a trainer ride was invoked. Trainer rides suck however cancer sucks worse.
Anyway we soldier on just like the poor kids who have to fight for life every day & for the 3 who don't make it each week.
Ride on people
Here are just some of the many ways your support helps fight childhood cancer:
$50 can help our scientists develop better cancer treatments with fewer side effects.
$58 can buy special materials needed for extracting cancer DNA to help us find out what turns an innocent cell into a killer.
$86 can purchase a “big data” scan that allows us to see more than 7,000 proteins in a cancer cell and improve cancer diagnosis and treatment planning.
$95 can buy 1 mg of an experimental telomerase inhibitor to test – one that might lead to a better cancer treatment.
$138 can help us scan thousands of cancer proteins and add to our database, which aims to transform how doctors diagnose and treat cancer.
$880 helps us operate specialised microscopes that allow scientists to see the processes occurring inside living cells that turn them cancerous.
$1500 can fund pre-clinical tests of a new drug that could treat cancer, epilepsy, or other conditions.