Hey I'm going to blog about whatever I want! ... just because it's the new year! So if I talk about something you find interesting, I ask that you would visit www.epicriders.org. However if you do not find anything I say interesting , I ask that you would visit www.epicriders.org. Now that about sums up stuff... other than that, if you either found some, all or none of this interesting I ask that you would visit http://www.epicriders.org/Donate.html and help free Exploited People In Cambodia! Lets be EPIC.

Smooth Roads,

Evan

BACK TO THE FUTURE... well.... present.

Holy smokes, just read my last post and it was a major blast from the past! I had plans of doing a loooooad of cycling in the summer however, through a creative scenario (on a bike I should add) I broke my right clavicle (collar bone). Soooo yeah I didn't get to really bike at all too much because two surgeries and one whole summer later I was just getting well enough to ride, and then school started. Lame.

There have been many huge changes, and I'd be here till we leave if I try to talk about them all, so instead I would just invite you to make your way to our EPIC Riders website where you can find all the information you may want to know! We just updated everything so its fresh and new! Like new linens on the bed.... but less comfortable if you try to sleep on it... so I don't recommend it.

If you still cant find something on the site, feel free to send me an email at EvanJRedka@gmail.com or visit the Contact Us page on our website to contact other members.

Thanks for the support,
Cheers

Evan, Team Encourager

EPIC re-re-cap

Sorry for the delay in posts everyone, I've been crazy busy with sports and school. Right now I'm working on getting our "Kilometers for Freedom" fundraiser up and going! There will be a larger release at a later date once  it's all set up. However, here's a sneak peek! With an end goal of $50,000 for this fundraiser, we will be 'selling kilometers'. How will this work you ask? Simple. Once we have our set rout, we will take the distance and divide our goal by that, this will give us a price per kilometer, and we will then sell the kilometers! Kilometers can be purchased by submitting your money, and we will let you know what Kilometer number or numbers you purchased. Then, at the end of each day on our trip, we will update our trip blog with the kilometers we rode that day, so you will know exactly when we rode in appreciation of your support. Again, stay tuned to our blogs, our website http://www.epicriders.org/ and our EPIC Riders group on facebook, http://www.facebook.com/EPICRiders for further information, and the price of a kilometer.

In other news... Training time unfortunately been minimal but I will be going out very soon to get some more time in! I was going to go out today since it is so lovely out.... but decided you were more important! I will be meeting with my managers sometime in the near future to organize my work schedule for the summer so I have lots of time to get out riding! I want to double my summer biking distance that I set last year.

Our current team status is four riders with the recent loss of our driver, so if you or someone you know would be interested in partaking of this EPIC trip as the most EPIC driver around, let us know this will be a crucial roll on the team and is needed to make this endeavor successful.

Last but not least, please be praying for the whole team! The organization of this is not easy, especially for our mastermind Ben! We all have school and are doing our best, but we could use all the help we can get!

Thanks,
Evan Redka

Some Pictures for ya'll!

Wow I am a terrible person. I haven't updated ya'll in a while! So here's how things sit.
- Summer riding... AWESOME logged loads of km's
- Ride for Refuge, going down this saturday Oct. 1st. Fundraising goal has been raised.
- Bike condition... mediocre. Blew a tube a few km's from home last week. Got a good walk though!                  Looking into new grip tape for my bars, my current stuff has just about fallen off.
- My EPIC CHANGE BOX has accumulated nearly $350 of pocket change that I have been throwing in since the beginning of my time with the EPIC team
- Still on fire for Invisible Children
- Rarely updating blog, but still working hard elsewhere!
- School... Gr11!
- Volleyball every day after school
- Drivers training twice a week
- Biking whenever possible between everything else!

Well with fall and ultimately winter on the horizon I am looking into cold weather and winter riding but have to clue where to start. Any tips on keeping warm, equipment to keep me safe, or parts to maintain my bike in the harsh weather would be awesome and you can send them to me at vnekadrae@gmail.com
Cheers,
Evan Redka

What the heck?! did I buy that TREK?!

I GOT A BIKE! And as the title may give away, it is a TREK, but more specifically, a TREK 5500 I got an amazing deal, from a friend and only had to dish out $450! I absolutely love it and have put over 100 clicks on it already! I am really growing to enjoy biking more and more! (and I loved it before so just imagine!!!)
Luke and I went riding the other day and right now I'm looking into getting together with another avid biker from Glenview once a week to go riding! Oh, and some good news to go along with that... he has expressed some interest.... well actually a lot of interest in joining the team!

I dont even know where to begin right now about how excited I am for the ride! Every time I check the Facebook page or website and see updated it gets me more and more pumped! Not too long now until we will be looking for sponsors and hopefully getting details laid down! Oh what a day that will be... and then the glorious fundraising :P that'll be an adventure! Got any fundraising ideas? Shoot em here! We'll need all the suggestions we can get!

Thanks and until next time,
Cheerio, Evan

ola!

Well its been a while, and things have definitely changed! We have a new member which is awesome and were all so grateful to have her with us! Also we have the Invisible Children 25 coming up this weekend! Unfortunately I think my package with my shirt and other stuff got lost in the mail... so I will have to make my own shirt :D
Its going to be a crazy summer! I have a lot of biking to do and also I will be working quite a bit! At the moment I am debating staying part time for the summer, or switching to full time. I need time to get biking in with everything so full time would limit that to only a day or two a week, but I need money, and part time just doesn't bring in enough... too bad its money that makes the world go 'round... :( Any prayers would be greatly appreciated right now! I really have no clue what I'm going to do in the next few months.

As for school, its going great! Badminton ended well with some team mates going on to win CWOSSA! (If you're familiar with the rest of the team, Luke's brother and his partner won CWOSSA) I for one have moved on to a sport I perform better in... JAVELIN! As of last year I am the WCSSAA champion, CWOSSA runner up, and West Regionals Top Ten! This year has started off well with a canceled track meet (haha) and I am striving for better things! Hopefully OFSSAA this year, but at least West Regionals again!

Thanks for everything guys!  Support really helps when it comes to making the decision of working out and biking over work, school or video games... although now with KINECT video games can be a workout! I'm planning to get a new bike sometime soon to replace my mammoth I have been riding for the last 4 years, its a little bit un-ergonomic if you know what I mean. (Tires as wide as a pop can.)

Well thats all for now! Catch yah later! (see you on the road ;P)

,Evan Redka

P.s. Dont forget to check out the other Team members blogs as well!