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Tour de Cure 2012

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The 4 of us, before the start of the 2012 Tour de Cure For the eighth time this year, the Orel men rode in the annual Tour de Cure  ride to help support the American Diabetes Association (ADA).  For the 4th time, we were joined by the Orel women, and for the first time, our team included someone not named Orel. First things first:  We are still accepting donations.  The link is:   http://main.diabetes.org/goto/teamorel In flipping through the blog, I found that I used it to put out pre-tour fundraising messages in 2006  and  2007 .  The 2006 blog post revealed that my sneakers, water bottle, gloves, bicycle and biking shorts were the same this morning as 6 years ago... and this is not  an advertisement for the condition of the sneakers!  Aaron used a bike that year that can best be described as a large toy (and which nearly ended up in a neighbor's scrap heap earlier this year, but there's another story there), but he managed 15 miles on it all the same. Later, I blog