Hi there everybody! We're coming up to our 2nd Annual ehMac MS Bike Tour. Last year, Team ehMac raised over $1600 to help battle MS. (Multiple Sclerosis, not Microsoft)
I'm asking everyone to please Click here to pledge your financial support. (Note, for Safari users, please turn off "Block Pop-Up Windows" under the Safari menu for link to work.) You will receive a full tax receipt for your donation.
Our goal is to raise well over $2000 this year. So please help by donating. Or...
If you're feeling more ambitious... please Join Team ehMac on the MS Bike Tour in Toronto on Sunday, September 12th and help raise your own pledges! (Note, for Safari users, please turn off "Block Pop-Up Windows" under the Safari menu for link to work.) To join Team ehMac, click the above link to register for the MS Bike Tour. Then click on the “My Events” menu option, you will see a link called “Join an existing team" - You then can join "Team ehMac"
We'll keep this thread updated on pledge totals.
Click here for an audio message about the MS Bike Tour.
SK... is that both online and offline donations or just offline?
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Little ehMaxette and I are almost all packed. Bikes all oiled up, tire pressure checked, got my helmut, water bottles, rain gear just in case, lip balm, extra dry T-shirt, shades, all the offline donations and receipts... Health card, license to identify my dead body, pocket money and cell phone.
How about some last minute donations from ehMac members to make sure we're well over our $2000 mark!!! Remember, you get a tax receipt for donations over $15!!!
With Script Kiddie's and my totals, we have exactly $1656 raised! (Haven't heard back from Loafer or his significant other)
So, if we want to be sure to reach our goal of $2000... we need to raise another $344... TONIGHT!
It's 10:45 Eastern time here. I have to get up tomorrow morning at 6:45 to drive to Toronto.
I'm not going to bed until I know for sure that we're reaching our goal of $2000
If you haven't donated online yet... please, I'm begging on my hands and knees, please find it in your heart to pledge your support for people with MS in Canada.
Well.. I tried to stay up until we hit $2000. But it's 1:15 am here and I really need to get some sleep before the event.
I'll keep the donation links up all day Sunday. You can still donate even while the event is taking place. Hopefully I'll come home with pictures and find we've for sure hit our $2000 target!
Just a few more donations folks. Would love to get some sleep tonight! Did I mention I am biking 50 km tomorrow pulling a small child in a trailer? A few hours sleep would be nice.
Well we did it! What an awesome day! Weather was absolutely beautiful for a nice bike ride. Here's the day by numbers:
- Distance of ride today according to my odometer: 48.12 KM
- Biking time it took to complete: 2 hours, 51 minutes and 15 seconds.
- Average speed was 16.9 KM (Not bad for pulling a trailer with a child and waiting for two other guys to catch up)
- Maximum speed was 37 km per hour. (Don't tell Mrs. ehMax)
- Total riders today at the Toronto ride: 270
- Total money raised: $130,000.
I think I can speak for Script Kiddie, Loafer and myself that it was an absolute blast. We were all saying at the end how its a shame more ehMac members don't come out. What an cool feeling to come riding into the finish line and have music blaring and about 50 people all cheering their hearts out for you and giving you high fives.
Next year, I want to see a dozen or so ehMac riders from around the GTA to come out. We'll have a party afterwards or something.
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Thanks to everyone who pledged or in someway helped out. I'm sorry if you donated and I didn't thank you personally. Together we raised $2296 dollars. (Loafer came in with $315 raised). If you haven't donated, but would still like to, you can still donate to the MS Society on behalf of Team ehMac. The link in the first post of this thread will still work for the next month.
A few more donations have trickled in and I'll update everyone with the final exact total raised in the coming weeks.
Thanks again everyone! Let's give ourselves a round of applause!
It was great meeting Script Kiddie, EhMax and little EhMax. Quite possibly the nicest people ever. The event was really well organised with complimentary breakfast and lunch with a whole range of drinks and snacks along the route was fanatastic.
The 50km sounds pretty daunting but inn the end it was pretty easy.....there was one hurting hill but Script Kiddie kept my mind off my burning muscles by pointing out the mansions as we rode by. We got the impression we weren't going fast enough for the big guy
I highly recommend more people come out next year, it really was a great way to spend a sunny Sunday.
Thanks for getting me involved EHMax.
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