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Ballarat, Ararat, Hamilton, Port Fairy, Port Campbell, Colac and return to Ballarat....OUR GOAL..

Ballarat, Ararat, Hamilton, Port Fairy, Port Campbell, Colac and return to Ballarat....OUR GOAL..







"If we all have the fortitude to see this effort through to the end, then we will eradicate polio." - Bill Gates




Thanks to Rotary and its partners, the world has seen polio cases plummet by more than 99 percent, preventing five million instances of child paralysis and 250,000 deaths. When Rotary began its eradication work, polio infected more than 350,000 children annually. In 2011, fewer than 1,000 cases were reported worldwide.

But the polio cases represented by that final 1 percent are the most difficult and expensive to prevent. Challenges include geographic isolation, worker fatigue, armed conflict, and cultural barriers.


That’s why it’s so important to generate the funding needed to End Polio Now. To fail is to invite a polio resurgence that would condemn millions of children to lifelong paralysis in the years ahead.



The bottom line is this: As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, all children — wherever they live — remain at risk.


Sunday, March 28, 2010

This was our 2010 ride : a ten minute video tells you all (Click on the arrow to start and the icon at bottom right hand corner to get full screen)



Dear Readers and VRs

Bruce and Katrina and the whole Tour de Vic Team finished their Ride to End Polio over a week ago . Perhaps you have been wondering at times what our intrepid team has been doing ....well Lance at least appears to be suffering from PBRDS (Post Bike Ride Deprivation Syndrome) - he actually rode into a restaurant in his knicks, on his bike last week , between the tables, and all ! What about our Cadel ? He will have completed his warm down ride over about 3 mountain ranges - hope that bike is still shiny! ; Stuart O'Grady will be back in Shepparton, and Laurie-lie must seem like a dream; the King of the Mountain Bikes is probably a mere mortal now, and Eileen, who swam 36 km in 6 days - well hopefully she will have stopped flapping, closed up her gills and learned to breathe normally on land. Margaret will have unpacked "Rovah" the van - will she be walking the streets of Rutherglen looking for nomads to mother ? And what about Graham - has he recovered from the shock of seeing all of us ride into Albury together - getting us all there intact eclipses the achievements of Shackleton (in fact Graham that is your new moniker : "Ernie"). Bruce "himself" Nichols has been wearing a green jumper ever since he got home, wistfully dreaming of that green jersey he never did attain; and your other correspondent Katrina "Kathy Watts-on" (yes self-titled!) - well she has made a little video above for you to all to enjoy -see below it only goes for 10 minutes - don't be fooled by it - we didn't really have such a good time and we really did suffer ! Thank you one and all for your generous donations and sponsorship - the whole Tour de Vic (7 riders, 1 swimmer) - raised $16,000. The 6 extra riders who joined us for the last 84 km also contributed to this grand total. Bill Gates will match this - so there is $32,000 - which will help us to ... END POLIO NOW ! So it's Over and Out from The Blog - Goodnight from all of us and glub glub from Eileen ! Until next year ... we'll contact you, don't worry !
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  1. UnknownMarch 29, 2010 at 5:25 PM

    What a fantastic effort by all! And the video is a great little memento.
    Well done!
    Norv

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