The Heart of a Veteran

My Journal entry from a few days ago, ever sense I have been out of the Marine Corp I have made a concious effort to tell all veterans that I see in public thankyou for there service. This was a conversation I had with a man that has really touched my heart for the WWII Generation, here is what I wrote in my journal from that day.
Thinking about a man I met at Cracker Barrell a few Days ago that served in WWII named Mr. Murry .I walked up to him and told him thankyou for his service and what he did, he teared up and said to me thankyou for remembering because so many have forgotten. havent stopped thinking about it sense

TREK

So really cool story, if you have been following my blog you know about my desire to do a fundraiser for Childrenscup.org our care points in Africa for orphans. My plan has been to do a 24hr bikeathon called Iron man for Orphans. I have a road bike already but after four years I'm ready to upgrade. For a few months I have been learning about new bikes and studying narrowing down my decisions and after a long time I narrowed it down to two bikes cervelo and trek. I have always liked cervelo but how can you pass on the tradition and legacy of a great bike like trek. After much consideration I went with cervelo because the Trek model I liked it would take me more time to save up for. Well such a cool story, I'm sitting with my mom talking about bikes and I happened to show her the trek I liked and she said oh by the way I have been doing a real estate deal with a guy who owns a bike shop and he said if we ever were interested in bikes just let him know. Then she told him about me and he said tell him just send me some info about the bike he likes and will get to work on it. I was like what! Are you serious how awesome is that! It was such a blessing, I have always loved trek and Lance Armstrong has always been my favorite athlete, just the effort and technology put into trek bikes to me top quality. So Trek is the choice, Model 2.3 Madone preseries. The first time I had my hand on the bike it was twice as light as mine no weld points vi sable and so much cleaner. I'm really excited about it and will definitely keep you posted on it.

Cervelo it is

So after a good bit of research I have made up my mind, Cervelo. I have to confess I have done a really bad job with learning about my bike and have done more work towards learning about my nutrition and exercise. But in the last year I have tried to learn alot more about bike mechanics, aerodynamics, and the diffrence between good bikes and great bikes. After all this research I realized how much of a diffrence knowledge in the bike arena makes, and how much I did not know about bikes. But I have always liked Cervelo and Felt, and of course Trek, but I have always liked the design and style of Cervelo. This is the S1 series of Cervelo that I really like, I have tried it out several times and several other bikes as well and this is the model I found to be my best fit so with all that I'll keep you posted on how it goes. And by the way have a happy new year.