From Ron Cates: Over the last few years, I’ve gotten to know Tim very well. He is gifted, dedicated, and motivated. But he is not a highly experienced cyclist, and he has not trained and raced at the highest levels for years. In fact, he was a recreational cyclist who rode his bike a few miles occasionally. So, how does one go from nearly zero miles to a 3,000+ mile bike ride across America? And the bonus question: How does one safely and properly prepare in only nine months? 

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When I decided to do a cross-country bike ride six months ago to raise awareness of, and money for, child abuse prevention, I had a vague idea of the amount of planning and work that was needed.  With just under two weeks to go, I still have a few things to finish up, but here’s what’s been done thus far.

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Regardless of a person’s communication skills, child abuse is still a difficult subject to discuss. So, here’s my guideline for talking to victims of child abuse.  Please note that this is solely based on my opinion and my experiences.  Others may agree in whole, agree in part, disagree in part, or completely disagree.

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From Tim:
I have come to know that I am a smart, lovable, valuable and a worthwhile person.  I also know that I can do a lot of things extremely well and I have accomplished a great deal of inspiring accomplishments and worthy successes in my life.  Even so, until a few years ago, I had no intentions of sharing my story. 

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Starting September 29, 2021, I’ll be riding my bicycle from San Diego CA to Jacksonville FL.  The ride is over 3,000 miles long and will take 40 days to complete (that’s about 75 miles per day, which, at 14 mph, is 5 hours and 20 minutes of riding per day).  So, why do it?

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My defense to the superhuman perfectionism was to do nothing, quit, put no effort into it, and/or have no emotional investment in the outcome.  It was hard not to have an emotional investing in the outcome of things for me, so most of the time I did nothing or quit.  Yet, in many areas of my life, I didn’t quit.  I wish I knew why, I just didn’t.

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The actual definition of “science” is the pursuit of knowledge.  Knowledge about the world we live in (e.g., the physical sciences); knowledge about living things (e.g., life sciences); and knowledge about species interaction (e.g., social sciences).  Some things humanity knows very well, other things humanity knows very little about, and still other things humanity’s knowledge is somewhere in between.

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