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Day 13 through 18. Rural America
Day 13 through 18: Saint Clairsville, OH – Zanesville, OH – London, OH – Hamilton, OH – Brookville, IN – Columbus, IN – Bloomington, IN Following my most recent route through Pittsburgh, I decided that it just isn’t worth it to go through large metropolitan areas. The main issue is that the city traffic is far more dangerous than the…
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Day 2 through Day 6. I’m uber competitive
Day 2 through Day 6: Hillsborough, NJ – Philadelphia, PA – Newark, DE – Baltimore, MD – Westminster, MD – McConnellsburg, PA It was the morning of Day 2, that I decided to scrap my initial preplanned route and felt that just winging it westward would be better. So after a stop in Philly at the end of Day 2, I…
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Bike from NY to LA. The Journey has begun. Day 1 Recap
I am currently writing to you from a youth hostel in Baltimore, Maryland, about 240 miles into the trip. So how am I feeling? Pretty good actually. I was the most sore after Day 1 and the soreness was all in my quads and my upper-back. Very isolated. I feel much better now, I think…
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Why should I donate to the American Heart Association?
More than 2,200 Americans die of cardiovascular diseases each day which averages out to one person every 39 seconds. Cardiovascular diseases claim more lives each year than cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases and accidents combined. Yeah. So…this is a PROBLEM. The AHA is 2nd only to the federal government in funding cardiovascular and stroke research. They need your donations so…