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Breast cancer has touched all of us in some way. Pay tribute to a person you may have lost or celebrate a friend's victory. Use hashtag #breastcancerawareness and tweet @SyracuseBicycle
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Paul and Trish
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Dear Cycling Friends,
Several hundred riders, supporters and survivors will be converging on Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville this weekend for our 6th Annual Syracuse Bicycle Breast Cancer Awareness Ride.
Our goal is to raise $25,000 for The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of Central New York. All proceeds will go to this local organization, which helps fund breast cancer research close to home.
We've got a ride for everyone and anyone! There are 10-, 25-, and 50-mile options. For full race maps, click here.
Last year's race drew over 400 people to the park, all dedicated to find a cure for a disease that affects 1 in 8 American women. This year's effort is on track to exceed that, making the ride one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. and Canada.
RIDE SCHEDULE:
8:00am-9:30am - Day-of Rider Registration Open.
8:30am - 50-mile Ride Departs *note earlier start time!
10:00am - 25-mile Ride Departs.
10:30am - 10-mile Ride on the Erie Canal Departs.
11:30pm - Lunch by Angotti's Family Restaurant.
12:30pm - Survivors Presentation and Door Prizes Raffle.
BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS: Please email [email protected] with your name. We have a special gift for each survivor that rides with us. There will also be raffles and many other opportunities to win prizes.
Our best,
Paul and Trish
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| Beth Baldwin: Keeping Cancer Research Close to Home Matters |
For the Baldwin family-yes that Baldwin family, of the famous acting brothers-Central New York has always been a place of deep connection.
Their matriarch, Carol Baldwin, was born here and graduated from SU, meeting her husband almost as soon as she arrived on campus.
Carol has also made a sustaining and highly visible impact on the world of breast cancer awareness and research through the family's local foundation, named The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of Central New York. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990.
The foundation's work supports the surgeons, oncologists, and radiologists at SUNY Upstate Medical University and offers grants to local researchers in honor of someone who has lost their battle against breast cancer.
Fundraisers are a key part of the foundation's reach. One of those is the 6th Annual Syracuse Bicycle Breast Cancer Awareness Ride on Saturday, Oct. 4 in Great Lakes State Park.
The goal is to raise $25,000 for the Baldwin fund. There is still time to register. All proceeds will support breast cancer research in Central New York.
Elizabeth Baldwin, executive director of the fund, said local researchers have been able to leverage their $50,000 block grants to gain even more funding, upwards of $1 million
"This is seed money," she said. "Everything starts with the seed."
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Stuff We Like
|  Chris King designed the first sealed bearing headset in 1976. Thirty-four years later, the King headset remains a benchmark for quality. No other bicycle component can claim the precision, performance and absolute reliability of a Chris King headset. Made in the USA, too! In 2004, Chris King Precision Components launched a limited edition series of pink headsets and hubs in an effort to raise awareness for breast cancer research. A portion of the sales from these awesome Pretty and Strong headsets are donated to breast cancer research.
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Hundreds to Ride For Breast Cancer Awareness this Saturday, October 4th!
There is still time to register - all fitness levels are welcome!
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For This Canadian Couple, Every Mile Counts
 If you hear Lori Erb-Zych give her age as "thirty-seven and a half" for several years running, it's not because she's vain.
It's the age she was diagnosed with breast cancer and the year she marks as her rebirth.
"I decided I had to live a new life," she said recently, speaking from her job working in on the hospice floor at a Hamilton, Ontario nursing home.
And a new life she has found.
Thanks to early detection, she's now cancer-free and has been so for almost a decade. Also contributing to her renewed sense of purpose: She met and married a man she calls "her prince."
Committed to paying their good fortune forward, Lori and Rob Zych regularly participate in breast cancer awareness events. This will be the third year they will travel from Canada to Syracuse to participate in the annual Syracuse Bicycle Breast Cancer Awareness Ride.
The ride is Saturday, Oct. 4, at 10 a.m. at Green Lakes Park in Fayetteville. There is still plenty of time to register and there are options for all fitness levels.The goal is to raise $25,000 for The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of Central New York. All proceeds will go to this local organization.
All riders receive a gift bag, a chance to win fabulous door prizes, and a fully catered post-ride lunch by Angotti's Family Restaurant. On-course support provided by The Rabin Law Firm. Participating breast cancer survivors will receive a special gift from Mirbeau Inn & Spa of Skaneateles.
"It's a wonderful way to raise money," Lori said. And it's OK to start small. She remembers when her husband first suggested they ride 10 miles. Her reaction was clear: "Ten miles! I can't ride my bike 10 miles!" she recalled saying. "And yet I've been doing it ever since. He rides by my side."
Also crossing the finish line will be her two daughters, Amy, 26, and Samantha, 21.
I asked Lori what she was going to be thinking about when she crosses the finish line in Syracuse.
Silence. I thought our call had dropped.
"You made me cry!"
I'll be riding because I can, she said. Because I'm here. And to help others.
"I want to give them hope," Lori said. "Because when you lose hope, you lose everything."
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'The Decision of a Lifetime' Guides Central New York Woman
Running saved Ruth Ripley's life. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 and felt the single mastectomy her doctor had planned for her would make it more difficult to keep up with her intense running schedule so she opted for a double mastectomy. "The doctor said, 'You made the decision of a lifetime,'" she said, speaking from her home in Pennellville. "They discovered there was cancer in both breasts but [in the second] it was not large enough to have been noticed on a sonogram yet." The decision was fateful in other ways. It allowed Ruth, a nurse and grandmother of four, to continue with her passion, which was not simply running-but running marathons. Many, many marathons. One hundred to be exact. Ruth, who only started running at the age of 40, has completed 100 marathons, a project that began with the not-at-all modest goal to run a marathon in all 50 states. It was during this 50-state quest that Ruth was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite dealing with chemotherapy, surgery and drugs so difficult to tolerate she eventually made the bold decision to stop taking them, she really never stopped running.
Her friends and family kept her going, both in body and in spirit. "Friends would run slow with me" when I couldn't keep up, she said. In beating her cancer, she made the personal pledge to pursue 50 more marathons. Now retired from the marathon circuit at the age of 67 and cancer free, Ruth has moved on to-what else-triathlons and Cross Fit. She plans to ride in the 6th Annual Syracuse Bicycle Breast Cancer Awareness Ride on Saturday, Oct. 4, in Green Lakes State Park. She'll gather with hundreds of other people in honor of her own survivorship, but more so to honor the courage of all, she said. "You know what amazes me, it gives me so much hope to see all the survivors, 20- and 30-years out. It gives me so much hope," she said. "I hope I can give some inspiration to others, that you can keep going."
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