18th September
Awesome day on Wednesday. Rode from home to Port Macquarie return 117kms. The best part was catching up with Lloyd Newell from Gordon Street Cycles in Port who has now generously given me some sponsorship with a new bike and gear for the big road trip to Melb! I was speechless with this amazing gift of generosity! Take delivery next Wednesday and am very excited little Vegemite right now.
In the meantime spent the day yesterday selling raffle tickets and ride4acure merchandise on the streets in Kempsey at the Clyde Street Market. Had a fantastic day meeting many people who share their stories with me of their journey’s with melanoma and cancer. Frequently I hear is that ride4acure is the first ‘thing’ people have found that directly talks about and supports research into melanoma and that they can give to…as the leading cancer in young people melanoma ought to be top of the tree, the highest priority for research. Not to mention that at least three times yesterday I had older people tell me they’d lost their husbands/wives to melanoma. Now I find this amazing as I live in a town of barely 10 000 people, 28 000 in the whole shire…..I was gonna say ‘do the maths on that’ but of course I suck at maths myself and couldn’t work out the %’s…hhhmmmmnnn! but I’m saying that’s a lot of melanoma stories for a small town eh?
