A reminder

Hey guys, to start I will mention how hard it has been lately for me to find the motivation to keep working hard with all this. I had forgotten why I was doing it. There was just no burning desire to work so hard for something so far away. But today I was at the the Me to We conference (some people may know it as WE Day) and one of the speakers was a University of Toronto student with an amazing and powerful story. He was four years old and was living in Kenya. Everyday before he left for school his father would say to him "Be home before six!" but as school ended he was split between two options, be Dad's good little boy or go play soccer with his friends. Unaware of the extreme danger that resulted in his parents laying down their rule he went to play soccer. As the boys 4-15 played soccer a few military trucks stopped a little ways off and soldiers filed out of the back. They aproached the boys and grabed them and sorted them by age. As the soldiers stood towering over the small four year old, he realized that they were not playing a game. After being thrown into the truck and driven off somewhere away from everything, they were unloaded. They then grabbed the boy and slit his wrist. They rubbed a mixture of cocaine and gun powder in his cut, causing him to go crazy. They then blindfolded him and forced a gun into his hands. Being so young he could not hold the heavy rifle, so they forced the gun into his hands. They started yelling, "SHOOT! SHOOT!" and he did. His hands hurt from the repeated shaking of the gun as his tiney fingers brought the beast to life. The blindfold was then removed. He was a soldier. As what had gone on outside the blindfold came into view, on the floor was a boy, laying in his own blood, he was twelve, they had been best friends. This is why I am doing this, to give those children who have no voice a chance to be heard, a chance to be seen, a chance to be saved. These children are invisible. These children need something to be done. They need the world to say, 'We have had enough of Joseph Koney!' We are biking across Canada to raise money, awarenes and hope for the children. But it takes more than the group we have. We need more! We need everyone to say ENOUGH! These children should be at home. These children should be playing, not killing. These children should be happy. These children should be free. These children are invisible.

gettin' there

Well I haven't posted in a while, but I guess there isn't much to be bloging about! The workout schedule has been going great! Nothing new I can really let you all in on, except maybe that I have been feeling minor pain in my right knee, but I'll live! I plan on reducing my leg workouts for a bit, hopefully it will gety better. Well that's about all for now, so check in later and see what's new! Thanks! Evan