Years ago, unemployment figures were calculated using the number of people that applied for unemployment benefits. Somewhere along the line that process changed. Those figures are ignored by every government entity I have been able to contact. In fact, everyone I spoke to uses a survey to determine unemployment. Here is an excerpt from an [...]
Ten of our Orlando Runners and Riders cycling group members headed up to Flagler Beach on May 5th to ride in the Rotary’s “Cycle Flagler” the next day (May 6th) – an annual event featuring rides of 100, 62, 40 and 25 miles. We also got the organizers to help us out and promote our [...]
Orlando Runners and Riders sent a “delegation” to Punta Gorda to participate in the “Pedal and Play” cycling event. Raising money to benefit child leukemia, the organizers offered ride lengths of 62, 31, 15 and a 10 mile “mystery tour”. Manny and your author entered the 62 mile “metric century” while Kathleen and Luly attempted [...]
“Go Red Riders!” This was a common phrase heard during the Tour de Cure fundraising event, as cyclists with diabetes were wearing special red jerseys. At 7:30 Sunday morning, March 18th, approximately 1200 cyclists assembled in front of the UCF Medical School in Lake Nona to embark on the American Diabetes Association’s “Tour de Cure” [...]
(Article still under construction.) “I started caring a lot more about my “carbon footprint” when I heard gas prices will hit $5/gallon soon.” Anonymous East Orlando Resident. Tri Le (pronounced “Tree Lee”) commutes from Cypress Lakes to Oviedo, to his job as a pharmacist for Winn Dixie on a bicycle, riding between 50 to 70 [...]
Everybody I run in to out at cycling events has something nice to say about Adamo saddles. I had yet to meet someone who didn’t highly recommend them. What people didn’t tell me, was make sure you get the right model. Not all models are alike! Figuring that it was meant for “road riding”, I [...]
Today Orlando Runners and Riders and Eastside Cycling Club teamed up with Bike Works East Colonial to host the first ever Bike Swap to raise funds for the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure. What a blast! The weather was a little “brisk” but fortunately we had hot coffee, hot chocolate, donuts, many snacks and [...]
You’d have to be crazy to get up at 5:30 am on New Year’s Day. You’d have to be even more crazy if you stayed up till 2am shooting off fireworks as well. You’d be crazier still to go out on your bicycle and ride around the city of Orlando for 44 miles with 500 [...]
My first “Horrible Hundred” ride didn’t quite go the full hundred miles. I took a shortcut at the end and ended up with 95 miles. Yes, you are wondering, “Five miles? He couldn’t go another five miles?” No. I couldn’t. It was an effort of will and anger to overcome the pain just to make [...]
