Although it is pretty much the end of the biking season for the year as I write this, I have added an upgrade to my Biking Weather Suitability Forecast app: the sunrise and sunset times for the location. For now, this means Richfield, Minnesota. Perhaps someday I will get to making the app more customizable for the user.
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My Biking Weather Suitability Forecast Web App
I have added a new page for my new “Biking Weather Suitability Forecast Web App“. Find more information about the app at the page; for now, it is hard-coded to focus on suitability using hard-coded criteria and for Richfield, Minnesota, only. The forecasts can probably be considered “close enough” for the rest of the Twin Cities metro area.
Tour de Cure 2015
The obvious reason I ride in the American Diabetes Association’s Tour de Cure, as I did the last seven years, is because I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 42 years ago. While I have seen amazing advancements in the treatment of diabetes over these decades, I look forward to further research and improvements. Most of all, I pray for the day that a cure is found.
In this eighth year that I ride in the Tour de Cure, I have more important reasons to ride, as shown in the photo on this page: my wife, Sara, and our twin boys. I would like to see a cure and, until that day, better treatments to ensure that I may share as long a life as possible with them. I want to see these two precious boys grow up, from their first day of school, to teaching them to ride bikes and join me on rides, to teaching them to drive, to teaching them to shave, to seeing their high school and, I hope, college graduation ceremonies. I would like to see how much Paul, whose face is the spitting image of mine from 45 years ago (ignoring his strawberry birthmarks), continues to resemble me as he ages. And I would like to see how much Michael, whose face bears a similar resemblance to Sara’s at his age, also resembles her as he ages.
I also pray that our boys do not inherit my Type 1 diabetes, and hope that research may prevent its onset or provide a cure should they be susceptible to it.
Please support me with a donation by visiting my Tour de Cure page and selecting the “Donate to Me” link. Our efforts will help set the pace in the fight against diabetes. So let’s get in gear and bike to beat diabetes!
Each mile I ride, each dollar I raise will be used in the fight to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
No matter how small or large, your generous gift will help improve the lives of my family and more than 20 million other Americans who suffer from diabetes, in the hope that future generations can live in a world without this disease. Together, we can all make a difference!
Thank you for considering making a generous contribution to this cause that is so important to me.