Pan Ohio Hope Ride - thanks - videos -328 miles - 4 days - 1 goal

About a week ago my wife Sandy and I rode in the Pan Ohio Hope Lodge 2009 Ride. The Hope Lodges are places where cancer patients and their families can stay during their treatment. As a result of our sponsors support Sandy and I raised $5500 and as a 200+ group of riders we raised over $250,000 for this cause. At then end of this email is a list of our sponsors. Thank you all.

I also wanted to share with everyone a few videos from the ride. They're worth viewing - trust me ;-)

P.S. Here is a link to the blog of Paul Joncich a news anchor from Cleveland that I rode with
http://www.woio.com/Global/story.asp?S=10705631 - The amazing story is that Paul had never ridden more that 5 miles, in one shot, prior to this ride.



#1 This is a highlight video of the ride
http://vimeo.com/6022075





Pan Ohio 2009 from Ben Blanquera on Vimeo.



#2 In this video a couple talks about the impact the Hope Lodge had on their life as they struggled fighting their son's cancer

http://vimeo.com/6022160

Pan Ohio Hope Ride - The difference we're making from Ben Blanquera on Vimeo.

#3 - In this video Kathleen Bond - one of the event organizers - talks to the riders about "birthdays"
http://vimeo.com/6020180

Pan Ohio Hope Ride 2009 - Kathleen Bond speaking from Ben Blanquera on Vimeo.


Thanks again to our sponsors -

Ben and Sandy

Kelly

Allan Associates

rajagopal

jeyasekar

Amelia

Blanquera

John

Kessler

Kristen

Blum

jason

krac

Doug

Bond

Chasity

Kuttrus

Connie

Chwan

Ken

Lazar

Rhonda

DeMuth

Karen

Lindsey

Susan

Dolan

Karen

Lowery

Rye

Dorazio

Robert

Mahaffey

David

DuBose

Maureen

Metcalf

Sanjay

Dudaney

Doug

Morgan

Kevin

Dwinnell

Mary

Morgan

Tron

Emptage

Ronald

Morgan

Kevin

Gadd

Kay

Nelson

Glen

Gardner

David

Platt

Mark

Gilicinski

Mark

Pukita

Joe

Gottron

Eric

Reo

Andrew

Graf

Surya

Rudraraju

Steve

Gruetter

Eric

Schmidt

Sally

Haimbaugh

Hugh

Smith

Jim

Hendrickson

Julie

Spicer

Mechele

Herres

Ray

Taylor

Ardel

Jala

Sarma

Tekumalla

Kevin

Welker

Larry

Tracewell

Gregory

Yoakam

Scott

Vandergriff

Shawn

Vandervort