The 2011 Bike 4 for the Brain event was able to award five $2,500 grants! The 6th annual charity cycling race, B4B, raised enough money to present five vs. four grants to raise awareness about mental illness in the greater Kansas City area because an anonymous donor matched one of the four $2,500 grant contributions!
A check for $2,500 was awarded to each of the following five organizations by Dr. Ken Sonnenschein, Founder of Bike for the Brain, which is an annual cycling charity event:
1. Suicide Awareness Survivor Support
2. Pathway to Hope
3. Kids TLC
4. Wyandot Center Homeless Outreach
5. Niles Home for Children
Congratulations to Dr. Sonnenschein, family and friends, cyclists and volunteers who worked as an amazing team in making the 2011 B4B event a great success in raising awareness about mental illness.
Karen Lang, Your Brain Pro
Coach and Blogger at www.YourBrainPro.com
Dr. Ken Sonnenschein, Founder of Bike 4 the Brain in the greater Kansas City area, invites you to join him for the 6th annual B4B race. If you don’t bike you can join the 5K Run for Recovery, a 1 Mile Walk, and/or the Tricycle Challenge Charity Event too. This is a fun way to promote mental health awareness on Labor Day. www.bikeforthebrain.org
Karen Lang, Owner, Your Brain Pro, LLC
Coach and Blogger at www.YourBrainPro.com
Shawn Hunter, CEO of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge predicts this race to be one of the largest sporting events to ever take place in the United States of America in the beautiful state of Colorado. One of the mountain towns the pro cycle riders will be traveling through is my hometown of Buena Vista, Colorado during the week of August 22-28, 2011.
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge bicycle race starts in Salida, Colorado where 128 professional bike riders from around the world will head out of town and ride their bikes over beautiful Monarch Pass dropping down into Gunnison. From Gunnison the cyclists will head towards Crested Butte and cycle over Cottonwood Pass to drop down into Buena Vista or what we locals prefer to call BV. The pros will then pedal towards Twin Lakes and bike over Independence Pass where they will cycle down into Aspen to continue their Colorado Rocky Mountain bike tour heading further north towards Steamboat Springs and eventually ending their race in Denver.
I posted a picture of my bike and a picture I took from just about the top of the summit at Independence Pass looking southeast towards Twin Lakes and BV.
We invite you to visit www.USAProCyclingChallenge.com to learn more about the official route of this historical and amazing USA Pro Cycling Challenge.
I’m curious how the 128 pro cyclists from around the world are planning their individual race strategy via their unique thinking & behavioral brain patterns.
We invite you to visit www.YourBrainPro.com to learn more about how your brain prefers to think and behave when riding your bike. No strategy is right or wrong, just different.
Karen Lang, Your Brain Pro
The 2011 ‘Ride the Rockies’ is an annual bike tour of 2,000 cyclists traveling through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. This year’s bike route includes an evening stop in my hometown of Buena Vista, CO on June 12th (see bottom picture).
Reresearch has shown that biking and exercise strengthens cognitive abilities which is one very good reason to find time to have some fun in the great outdoors.
To learn more about the 2011 Ride the Rockies bike tour visit www.ridetherockies.com and below are some of their pictures…
