The Video

December 19, 2003
by Rodney Olsen
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I was chatting to a freind yesterday who is interested in my recent ride across the country. He wants to see the 3.5 minute video clip of the ride so he’s dropping over soon to grab a copy and to ride to work with me.

While I can’t hand out a DVD top everyone in cyberspace, I can direct you to bikeforbibles.org where you’ll find several copies of the clip. The site has been put together by one of the guys who did the ride and has all kinds of interesting info.

Have a look for yourself and let me know what you think of our epic journey.

I’ll let you know when the hour long documentary is finished and when it will hit our TV screens.



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Tonight's Finalists Are…

December 18, 2003
by Rodney Olsen
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A couple of nights ago it was the end of year modelling concert last night for our 5 year old James where he received a medal for being a finalist.

Last night it was 7 year old Emily’s turn.

Now Emily is very proudly wearing a medal for being one of 11 finalists in her age category. That puts her in the top 20%.

Again, no trophy, but we’re all pretty pleased.

One of the best parts of the whole deal is to see the genuine thrill that they’ve each had congratulating the other. Both of them seemed just as pleased that their sibling had won something, perhaps even more so, than the fact that they had won something themselves. There was lots of hugs and ‘congratulations, I knew you could do it’ type comments exchanged between the two of them. They are both each others greatest fans.



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… And the Finalists Are …

December 17, 2003
by Rodney Olsen
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It was the end of year modelling concert last night for our 5 year old James.

He is now very proudly wearing a medal for being one of 5 finalists in his age category. He didn’t end up picking up a trophy but he’s more than pleased that he was one of the best on the night … and so is the rest of the family.



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I've Got a Secret Santa

December 16, 2003
by Rodney Olsen
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Darren emailed me my secret santa name yesterday so I now need to come up with a devious way to do good to a fellow blogger.

If you’re wondering, my secret santa is it’s …. oops …. that’s right, I can’t tell you. If I did I’d have to kill you.



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Crash Bang Wallop

December 15, 2003
by Rodney Olsen
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Our Saturday morning ride turned into quite an event a couple of days ago.

We were about a third of our way around the circuit we take when I heard the sickening sound of clashing metal behind me. It seemed to go on forever. It sounded as if the entire pack behind me had fallen.

We pulled over to the side of the road and then looked back. 3 cyclists had come down on a small bridge. There is a bad join between the road and bridge which one of the riders had hit quite badly.

One cyclist had just a few scrapes, one had a cut to the head, and the third had a broken collarbone. Yuck.

The group swung into action with some looking after the injured guys, some directing traffic, someone calling an ambulance, another calling his partner to come and collect the bikes of those who fell.

One the two more seriously injured guys had been packed into the back of the ambulance and Judy had turned up to take the bikes away, we rode back towards the coffee shop where we meet after each Saturday ride.

It was a rather subdued conversation, mostly focussing on the accident and previous cycling accidents.

We’ll all be back next week, hoping that we all stay a lot safer on the ride.



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