Begin forwarded message:

From: Kris Rodden

Date: July 16, 2009 11:03:02 AM PDT

To: "Annabet"

Subject: Re: Emailing: Tour de Pat Bog

Awesome, sounds perfect!  

Kris

On Jul 16, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Annabet wrote:

Good morning Kris,

 

A very quick reply to your e-mail before I dash off to work.  I hope to have the t-shirt design in the next day or two.  Things got slowed down due to designer's involvement in Choochokum.  I think it is going to be soooooo cool!  I also agree that the more people wearing them out and about the better and will inspire more "tour de Pats".  Also, hoping to make it affordable as well as stylish.  You will be one of he first to see it before it goes to print as I would like to have your seal of approval.

 

More later.......

Love,

Annabet

----- Original Message -----

From: Kris Rodden

To: Rodden Kris ; Berlin-Moeller

Cc: lennon@whidbey.com ; Neubauer Nancy ; Nancy Neubauer ; Neubauer Larry ; Lawrence Tom ; Lawrence Tom ; Korry Beall

Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:17 AM

Subject: Re: Emailing: Tour de Pat Bog

Karen  (and Annebet and copying the Neubauers and our old friends and bicycling buddies, Tom and Beall),

 

The girls and I would very much like to participate in a 1 day ride on Whidbey that you mentioned in your message below.  Do you know if someone is actually putting that together so we can spread the word, and also so that I can know when it is?  I would also like to post info on Pat's CB Journal about it too,  if/when there is a firm date.

The girls and I could use something like this to look forward to and it would get me pushed to find some time for us to ride our bikes together too beforehand.  And get me to get some help getting the tandem I ride adjusted for Sarah to ride with me. She and I would ride my tandem together in such a Tour de Pat day ride, and in general in the future for a while until Sarah is more capable on a single, and Jaime would ride her single.  Jaime might be able to ride up to 20 miles (depending on hills), or at least 10 on her singe.  She and Sarah did a very hilly ride with us once last summer that was at least 5 miles and it had tons of hills that were tough. The 3 of us have been talking about this.  Currently our tandems are set up with Pat captaining Sarah on his, and me captaining Jaime on mine.  That's how we had been riding usually as a family the past couple of years (though not as often as we would have liked). That doesn't work for us any more without Pat being able to captain his tandem and ride with us.

Annebet, is there a t-shirt design that we could link to on CB Journal yet?  Is that possible?  I still think that there may be many folks interested in buying one, especially if they can see what one looks like as a motivator online.  The endurance bike group that we have known for over 20 years will likely be interested for sure (that's a large group) as well as many others who never ride a bike (like my parents and sisters, to name a few).  I love the image of all those folks, cyclists and non-cyclists, wearing a shirt while riding, perhaps in endurance events, or just wearing a shirt in thinking about Pat or riding down the road for just a mile or two, and the power that may give to Pat energetically, and how that might help us get the miracle we desire for him.  The vision helps me right now!  

The t-shirt could be a great catalyst too, for that "biking" community in the Seattle area (some are on Whidbey Island, like Julie B.) to organize a ride, or rides,  and dedicate it/them to Pat and wear the shirt while riding them.  I think a lot of them would buy the t-shirt and jersey in support, at least.  Several of them were very generous with donations to our Donation Fund soon after Pat got hurt (the word travelled fast in that group)  I also have  a vision of Pat wearing a  jersey and t-shirt and getting on that rehab bike down the hall from his room.  That might be pretty powerful for him too and help bring on that desired miracle.  When 3 of his biking buddies from Seattle  visited recently after riding their bikes from Seattle to visit Pat (in steady rain), and we had Pat down the hall in the rehab area in his wheel chair,  they were each trying out the rehab bike while talking to Pat and I, and we talked about how it could be great for Pat to get on that rehab bike.  I know Nancy N has thought about this too, especially as she wore her bike gear too and visited him recently.

Thanks, and much gratitude,

Kris