Cycling For Sinai

We finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those of you who have chosen not to watch the exciting finale on video, suffice to say that it was a wonderful capstone to a truly satisfying quest.  Accompanied by two of St. John’s County Sheriff”s Department finest (complete with sirens, lights, and stopped traffic at every intersection), we got to the Atlantic, dipped our tires in the ocean, and dove in.

I have been contemplating how to best sum up our experiences over the past few months.  I think it is best described as a gift.  It was (among other things) a:

-gift of family

-gift of incredibly supportive friends

-gift of seeing America in a unique, intimate, revealing and satisfying way

-gift of representing a national model of urban health care

-gift of incredibly generous support for Sinai Health System’s future

-gift of achieving a tough mental goal

-gift of conquering a physical challenge

-gift of time

-gift of contemplation and thought

-gift of being in a bubble

-gift of putting most of “normal life” on hold

-gift of slowing life down

-gift of being entertained by, and entertaining, those we met along the way

-gift of renewal

-gift of sheer unmitigated fun

Thank you to everyone who made this possible.