PENINSULA - Kevin Madzia and Ray Query left Cleveland Sunday afternoon to begin an 8-month journey to Ushuaia, Argentina.
And the pair from Northeast Ohio packed light because 15,000 miles is a long way to ride a bicycle.

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The Heights Observer has featured us on their website. Check it out!

http://www.heightsobserver.org/read/1/5/a-poster-child-speaks-out

We got 50!

Uncle Red "pimps" his bicycle. 3 and a half minutes on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP3xiLKJ9_4

The top 10 finishers of the Greater Cleveland Triathlon, Olympic Distance, are as follows:

1 Mark Durno (T-1:53), 39, Fairview Park, OH 1:55:58
2 Matt Cymanski (T 2:00), 17, Hiram, OH 1:56:56
3 Bill Marut, 44, Painesville, OH 2:01:05
4 Jeff Guise (T-1:03), 21, Westlake, OH 2:03:25
5 Mark Siegel, 45, Solon, OH 2:04:54
6 Ian Hoffman, 40, Cleveland Heights, OH 2:05:09
7 Patrick Berardencei, 27, Medina, OH 2:05:45
8 Zachary Lewis, 32, Cleveland, OH 2:05:58
9 Martha Brennan, 38*, E Cleveland Oh 2:06:04
10 Aaron Campbell, 37, North Olmsted, OH 2:06:45

I'm telling you this because #6 Ian Hoffman and #9 Martha Brennan are both your teammates and mine in Patti's Paladins! Martha was the first female finisher!

The Olympic Distance or International Distance Race consisted of a .75 Mile Swim, 23 Mile Bike and a 10K Run. The race was this past Sunday, August 1o, in Mentor and surrounds.

Congrats to both of our competitors!

Rick demonstrates the reflective effect of the "pattispaladins(dot)com" decal on the back of one of the t-shirts. It's all glowy! Nice and visible in our car's headlights, unlike our beloved mascot Sir Highwheeler, just above it!

Totally worth the extra 2 hours it took to apply; safety is REALLY important!

Check out the time stamp... we're a little punchy. (Just a little!) But the deed is done and done well. Thanks to Mike Kechisen and Transfer Express (and Rick for working a hard newbie shift at the presses), we're going to be one well-turned-out bike team!!

Reverse! Modeled by my own Co-Captain, it looks marvelous.

Much attention to detail has been paid. The website decal is special hi-reflective stuff for greater visibility.

Frankly, I just like to look at my husband, so this picture is partially gratuitous.

Front and back. Bath and fork. Yow. I think my eyes crossed there, a li'l bit...

This project is taking a million years. But the shirts and jerseys look sooooo awesome.

So so SO cool.

Sir Highwheeler makes his first appearance of the evening on a woman's bike jersey. Looks good. Looks speedy!

A pile of men's jerseys, ready for the next bit of logo-age. I think the next decal we do is Sir Highwheeler.

THIS year, the Paladins website is going on our shirts. With reflective stuff, for added visibility! Marketing and safety first!

Mike's hand (upper left-hand corner of the pic) is a blur, and the room is getting warmer, as we print the Paladins' jerseys and t-shirts for this year's Pedal to the Point to beat MS.

Major League Support Towards NMSS
Originally uploaded by sunspotting.

Last night I got to meet Indians great Joe Charboneau. The American League Rookie of the Year, 1980. You can read more about the evening (and with whom Rick and I spent our dinner...) HERE.

Well, I have actually met him before, but *this* time, seeing him, I knew about his wife having MS. I wanted very much to tell him that people care about her situation, enough to do something about it. (I did get that chance.)

So, with this knowledge, I took my BikeMS Team Captain cap to see if he would sign it. That was a success. But (thankfully) in more than one way: he seemed to have been moved by my (and our team's) commitment to this cause.

So in addition to Patti and my cousin Roger and my friend River, I'll be riding for Cindy Charboneau, when we ride Pedal to the Point.

I also gave him a Patti's Paladins 'business' card, so that if he happens to be interested, he can look us up. I hope he does. I hope he and Cindy take even more strength from the strong commitment to fund raising the whole of the Buckeye region has. I also hope that this year is the strongest year yet, for us and for all teams! The stronger we can be, the better the benefit for all who must deal with this wretched disease.

So many people in all "walks" of life need this cure. It was a special (though necessarily fleeting) moment.

I'm sure it'll be one from which I'll draw strength on the day of the ride.

(BTW: I've cropped the photo so the autograph cannot be used fraudulently.)

--rebecca.

Martha took third place in the women's olympic distance of the Cleveland Triathlon yesterday! Her time was 2:32:23. This event included a 1.5 K swim, a 26 mile bike and a 10 K run.

1. Ogonek, Donna $3,050.00
2. Wean, Gordon $2,800.00
3. Sinnenberg, Kris $1,845.00
4. O'Connor, Daniel (Buddy) $925.00
5. Alexander, Lisa $565.92
6. Newman, Wyatt $500.00
7. Petti, Anne $485.00
8. Getrost, Christina $450.00
8. Propp, David $450.00
10.Arendt, Andrea $436.00