Test your Triathlon IQ with this quiz AND in the process you'll be donating to one of my favorite charities...the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. The Foundation is dedicated to advancing quality of life and discovering cures for spinal cord injury.  This is personally close to me because in 1989 my father became quadriplegic after a swim diving injury.  Even though my dad is no longer with us, he is still the inspiration in all of my endeavors and drives me to do the best I can each day, no matter what the circumstance.  He very much related to Christopher Reeve after his accident as well.
For each quiz submitted, Health IQ will donate $1 to this charity on my behalf. (up to $200). 
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Anyone who knows me knows I care deeply about community, sport, women's participation, enjoying and being safe while participating.  So, April 13 I held a Ladies Night talk about Bicycle Safety at my local Trek Store.  We discussed our local laws of cycling, statistics of bicycle crashes and what we can do to avoid them and then talked about specific areas of town or questionable circumstances we've been in that we'd like to handle better. I think everyone went away with some new knowledge and a greater sense of community.
 
We broadcast the event on Facebook Live and we had 50 women attend! There were swag bags for everyone and we gave participants an opportunity to give back to the Tucson community and “Wheels for Kids” through raffle prize drawings.  Our local Trek Bicycle Stores are drop sites for Wheels for Kids, an organization that provide bikes at no cost to partner organizations, who then distribute the bike to local kids and families in need. Misty at the Trek Store decided this organization would be beneficiary of our Trek Women's Bike Night and it was a perfect fit. We raised $175 for Wheels for Kids in under 2 hours! In addition, several of the ladies decided to donate their children's outgrown bikes.  Raffle items for donations included helmets, Saris PINK Bike Rack and bicycle lights.
 
The event was such a success and I answered so many questions about bicycle safety, laws, skills and training that we are already planning future events. In addition to a weekend social ride to a local coffee shop, we'll have a clinic to teach bicycle handling skills. 
 
I love doing events like these and I hope, as a professional, I can be a role model for these ladies, young and old alike.