You know its not only bride and grooms that get cold feet, mine have been getting cold too. Last couple days the temperature has plummeted but that hasn't been what has made my feet cold. It's only days away from my ride, 15 and counting, and I'm starting to question my sanity. I am sure many of you have already been questioning my sanity all along.
Yesterday I watched as it poured buckets of water and pummeled cars and the building with golf ball sized hail. All the while I was thinking holey crap where would I take cover in such a deluge while biking!!!! And then on my drive home from Sorrento while passing through Rogers Pass - Revelstoke I kept looking at all that long unrelenting mountain I would have to be climbing.
I must be crazy! I also know that I did bike from Nanton to Chain Lakes and that was also a brutal stretch of road, so I have that comfort to fall back on. Having done something similar once does easy the panic, and one of my motto's of "baby steps" also comes to mind every time I start to get overwhelmed. I can always stop, I can always walk, and I can take more time if I need to, tackling a major mission like a 2 week bike ride is one that needs to be broken down into days, and then each day may be tackled peddle by peddle.
This is the same approach cancer patients have to approach life, they need to accept their reality, determine a game plan and then methodically work through it, doing their therapies and working trough the recovery of each treatment. All the while accepting that they can beat cancer because so many people have provided the funds for research to make it possible to win. It's not a guarantee that their cancer can be overcome but with each year and each fund raiser the odds of winning have increased.
Please share my journey with friends and family, with 1 in 6 mend being diagnosed with Prostate Cancer I know that at least one man you know will be struck by this.
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