37. Century bike ride

This is one of those physical activity ones.  Also, this one got renamed from, "Take a really long bike ride."

The original plan was to do something like Pelotonia.  For those of you not from around Columbus, Ohio; pelotonia is a really long bike ride organized by Lance Armstrong's foundation.  (He started doing this before he admitted to doping/wrongdoing.)

It's run through The Ohio State University's James Cancer Hospital.  (Full name:  The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University.)

It's a fund raiser/100-ish mile bike ride from Columbus to somewhere else in Ohio.

They've gone to Athens a few times and the last one was to a different town east of Columbus.

It's a few days, but it's over a hundred miles.

Oh, the name change!

A, "century," is a bike ride of over 100 miles.  There's a metric century, but that's only 100 km.  (62 miles.)

Anyway, with me having cancer, (doing much better.  Almost out of the chemo side effects.  I still can't run up a flight of stairs without passing out though,) I've decided to do Pelotonia.

I need to raise a crazy amount of money, (it's like $3,000 to join,) but I think I can probably do it.

Anyway, this is a goal I think I'm going to try to accomplish this year.

With my chemo side effects, I don't have much in my blood right now.  The lack of hemoglobin means there's not much oxygen in there, (which is why I can't run up stairs.)  I don't have clotting factors, so I could bleed out really easily.  I also don't have most of the stuff that makes up an immune system.

This should be fixed in two weeks, but right now, it's sort of at the forefront of my mind.

However, it looks like I'll keep my hair.  (Last Thursday I lost a bunch of hair, but it's not noticeable.  I haven't lost any since.)

That said, I might just go for a really long bike ride with my best friend.  It wouldn't benefit other people, but I give money to them anyway.  It might be better for my well being too.  My best friend is an adult as am I, and we hardly see each other.  Doing something like this might be really good for us, or at least me.  Partying in Athens for a weekend is probably something he'd be really into though.