Another Day of Prep

We spent all of the day getting ready for the race. It starts tomorrow at 5:00pm EST. I can't wait!

Merrill, our amazing bike mechanic spent much of the day going over our bike setup and teaching others the basics of how to fix and maintain bikes while on the road.

Madi, MamaD, and Stacey cooked enough dinner for the next 3 days!! I had a taste of the chili and it was great.

Weezal spent hours upon hours highlighting the route book and inserting route changes. That guy just works.

Peter Ramdial was diligent in documenting all of the days activities on PHillyK's camera. PHillyK is planning on using the footage taken by Peter to make a 20-30minutes "Bonus Feature" to our Documentary Movie when he sells it on DVD.

Fabio, PapaD, and The Goat were all busy with making sure we are ready to roll come tomorrow. There is just so much to do.

We took a bunch of pictures of the riders and support crew....





-Pat
Love Life!

Getting Ready For RAAM

Today we spent getting ready for the race and resting as best we can before the big event!

The support crew who drove out to meet us arrived at 4:00am. We all woke up when they got here to go out and give them hugs. They were super tired but they made it!!


The Goat and Fabio worked hard to get all of the stickers on the support vehicles. There are sooo many stickers. It took them a long time.



I tested out our new aero helmets in the hotel parking lot. I ran around in circles faster than I ever have before!!


MamaD and Stacey are totally awesome!! They offered to do our laundry. I would be dead already if not for them :)


-Pat
LoveLife!

RAAMRace.org

If you want even more information about how the race is going you can go to The official RAAM website.

http://RAAMRace.org

-Pattt
LoveLife!!

Almost to Cali!! :)

Last night was again another tough night of driving as the wind was blowing the RV everywhere! But we are almost there! We are about 350 miles out, about 50 miles from the border of California :)

Right now we are reviewing the rules - making sure we get everything perfect in the race!

Here are a few more pictures of our adventure to Oceanside :)

PR getting some rest

Stacey is a RV driving machine!!

PR in a giant pot? :)

- weez

AFC at Tour de Cure!

AFC had their last local ride as they participated in ADA's Tour de Cure yesterday. It sounded like it was a hot, but overall good day - it will be good preparation for when they go through Southern California and Arizona! Thanks to all who came out and supported AFC and ADA!! Here are a few pics from their ride! :)

AFC Group pic!

Alex and a smiling Goat leading the way!


Fabio heading up the AFC crew!

Fabio, Pattt, and Steve Klose looking good in the new AFC jerseys!

- weez

RV to Oceanside Update!

Last night driving was a little crazy as we drove through some pretty bad storms - PR is an RV driving machine! We stopped to get a few hours rest as we quickly found out trying to sleep on a moving RV is pretty tough. When we woke up, part of 70 was flooded!

The RV crew is now about 80 miles past St. Louis, Missouri! We are all doing pretty well, some of us got showers at a Pilot Truck stop, pretty nice showers too - felt amazing! Next state will be Oklahoma - hopefully we will be in Oceanside early Monday :)

Here are some pics of the crew in action :)

MamaD cooking some amazing French toast - I know pattt can't wait for her blueberry pancakes!

PR getting fit in the RV - he can do anything!

PapaD doing a great job driving!

Me and PR getting comfy to take a nap :)

- weez

The RV is off and running!! :)

PapaD, MamaD, Stacey, Peter Ramdial, and myself (weezal) are on our way out to Oceanside, CA for the start of RAAM! We are almost out of Maryland and will be driving through Ohio tonight.


- Mike Caputi (aka weezal)

AFC at the Bicycle Film Festival in NYC

Last Sunday we went to NYC because the AFC Documentary was part of the Bicycle Film Festival. We were told that we had to fill a theater with 200 seats. We sold 189 tickets :)!! Here are some sites/sounds of the festival.

New York City Bicycle Film Festival Street Party 2008
by asupremenewyorkthing

(PHillyK at the AFC Booth.. selling T-Shirts and telling people to see our movie)

(This guy can do a crazyyyyy fixie stand!)

-Pattt
Love Life!

AFC RAAM Training

A few weeks ago the entire RAAM team got together for a training ride. This was the 2nd time we did a ride that simulated RAAM racing.

(Lets get going!!! Left to Right: Adam, Keith, Pat, Alex)

Here is how we will be racing RAAM...
RAAM racing will have one cyclist 30minutes on the road while his partner 'leapfrogs' ahead in the leapfrog vehicle. When the cyclist on the road reaches his partner the partner takes over, to ride his 30minutes and the cyclist on the road stops and gets in the car so that he can be leapfrogged.

The other 2 cyclists are resting in the RV waiting for their turn. The rest/race period is 6hrs. Every 6hrs the cyclists in the RV will switch with the cyclists who are doing the 30mins on/30mins leapfrog.

(The AFC RAAM team at 2am after a long night of RAAM training)

-Pattt
Love Life!

AFC in Velo News

http://velonews.com/article/77026/fixed-gear-team-to-take-on-raam

-Pattt
Love Life!

Diabetes LivingToday - Radio Broadcast

A few weeks ago Adam, Mike (Weezal), and I drove to New Jersey to meet with Kitty Castellini and Dr. Joseph Fallon to be on a radio program called Diabetes Living Today. It was a great show and we had a great time!

Here are a list of all their Podcasts:
http://diabeteslivingtoday.com/podcast-3/

- Pattt
Love Life!

Official BICYCLE Film Festival Flyer

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Bicycle Film Festival!

The Documentary movie was accepted in the Bicycle Film Festival 2008. We need help getting people to the showing. Here are the event details:

Sunday - June 1st, 2008
3:00 pm

Location:
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003

Map

Event Schedule

Buy Tickets

Please! Spread the word. We need to get 200 people there!

Thank you!

AFC's First Charity Ride

In the summer of '05 Pat and Adam biked from their apartment in Catonsville, MD to Ocean City and then from Ocean City back to their apartment in 2 days to raise $7,000 for ADA!

It was then that we decided try to do some sort of big 'adventure' every summer to raise money for good causes.

Here is a route of that trip (out and back):

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Love Life
-Pattt

Sign up to ride with Adventures For the Cure at Tour De Cure

Sign up for our team here: http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/TDC101028030/1581884467?pg=team&fr_id=5007&team_id=274678



Donate to receive an AFC Jersey here:
http://www.adventuresforthecure.com/merchandise.php

AFC competes at Leesburg's Dakers Dozen

Adventures for the Cure with friends competed at its first ever Mountain bike race in Leesburg, VA. This was an awesome event put on by Rob and Plum Groove Cycleyery.


Keith and Alex teamed up to finish 9th out of 25 teams in the 2 man division. They were rolling around 32 minutes per lap. CRAZY fast.







Adam competed in the singlespeed solo division and was doing very well(4th/5th place) till he got sick at the 9 hour time frame. He drank protein and continued to bike, which made him very sick but was ok after he got an IV. He finished 10th place.



Pat never being on a mountain bike before was entered in the singlespeed solo division and only finished a few laps before calling it quits! Good effort he just needs to learn to mountain bike!

Bicycle Film Festival

4/18/08

AdventuresFortheCure: The Doc will be showing at the Bicycle Film Festival in NYC.

Find more information here: http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/

Love Life
- Pattt

New Documentary Movie Trailer

3/06/08
PHillyK just made a new AFC Documentary Movie Trailer... see it here:
http://www.videe-os.com/editor/index.html

-Love Life
Pattt

Documentary Showings!

We will be having two more documentary showings

1. The first one will be at University of Maryland Baltimore, on March 7th.
Doors open at 5:00pm show starts at 5:15 (or 5:30)pm.

Directions:
- 95 to 395 to MLK
- Turn right onto Baltimore Street and look for parking (Pharmacy Hall is on the corners of Pine and Baltimore; right of MLK)
- Turn right onto Saratoga and an immediate right onto Pine. Look for on-street parking.

Visitors can use one of these lots: http://www.parking.umaryland.edu/visitorumb.cfm
- Pharmacy Hall is located at 20 North Pine Street, between the blocks of Baltimore and Fayette.

Directions from the umaryland website: http://www.parking.umaryland.edu/beltway.cfm

2. The second will be at Hunt Valley Church, March 14th.
Doors open at 7:00pm show starts at 7:15 (or 7:30)pm.

Directions are can be found here.

RAAM Route

Date: 2/12/08

Race Across America starts on June 11, 2008. Here is the route:

It is exactly 3008.45miles (4840.60km)

-Pattt
Love Life!