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On these pages I tell the story of my experience riding with Team Seekers on the 1999 Washington DC AIDS Ride. Follow this link for the training tracking pages.

photos from the ride

Day 0 - Driving to Raleigh, registration, meeting our hosts
Day 1 - Ride-out, Chicken Lady & Ella, Kate's triumph
Days 2 & 3 - Tinky Winky Airlines, reaching Richmond, tent city
Day 4 - Final ride-in, Seekers support, closing ceremonies!

journal entries

I manged to journal every night (and even some mornings!) except the last night. Unfortunately, I couldn't represent on a Web page how my handwriting deteriorated over the course of the four days!

Day 0 - "Today was long and filled with excitement, anticipation, and nervousness."
Day 1 - "WOW! What a great day!"
Day 2 - "I know there was more I wanted to write, but my brain is mush."
Day 3 - "It felt like 60 of today's 97 miles were uphill."
Day 1, A.R. (After Ride) - "Yesterday's ride-in was pretty incredible."

the emails i sent my supporters

Most of my correspondence with my supporters was via email. This was effective for me, but may not be right for everyone.

I'm doing the AIDS Ride! 3/16/99
AIDS Ride Update 4/18/99
AIDS Ride Update: 7 weeks and counting! 5/9/99
AIDS Ride Update: Here I go! 6/21/99
AIDS Ride Update: I'm back! 6/27/99
AIDS Ride Final Update: Thanks for your support! 7/7/99

other wdcar4 web pages

Many others have put together wonderful representations of their DC AIDS Ride experiences. These are in order of when I discovered them.

http://www.unc.edu/~duncan/AIDSRIDE.html
Author: Duncan Price, Rider 2405
Photo Credit: Trash Lady photo on Journal Excerpts - Day 2
http://members.aol.com/dcar41021/
Author: Michael Flowers, Rider 1021
http://www.agla-va.org/teampics.html
Author: Dennis Coyle, Rider 816 & Co-captain, Team AGLA
http://www.georgetown.edu/users/handmakp/aidsride.htm
Author: Philip Handmaker, Rider 2367
http://mav.net/darc/wdc4/wdc4.html
Author: Darcy Schwartz, Crew
http://hometown.aol.com/RonBMoser/99rides.htm
Author: Ron Moser, Rider 95
http://eagle2.american.edu/~lo6554a/LisaRides.html
Author: Lisa Osburn, Rider 1135
http://members.aol.com/teamspice1/spicelounge.html
Authors: Team Spice
http://Kevin.Loeffler.com/wdcar4.htm
Author: Kevin Loeffler, Rider 2053
http://www.tomcheng.com/aidsride4/
Author: Thomas Cheng, Rider 1961
http://www.well.com/user/juanfe/rindex.html
Author: Juan Felipe Rincon, Rider 176
http://members.aol.com/hilary5229/wdcar4.htm
Author: Hilary Franklin, Crew
http://ridethedrive.frontroyal.freeservers.com/WDCAR4/mainpage.html
Author: Tim Williams, Rider 1585

Yahoo!'s DC AIDS Ride section