Biking to Provincetown in June
Earlier this year Credo Reference challenged its employees with a ‘Be Good, Do Good‘ program. Essentially the plan suggests we get off our butts and if we do something good for our health, anything almost, they’ll pitch in and donate to a cause of our choice.
My job involves sitting in front of a computer all day wondering how they work. This burns almost no calories. My closet is full of stuff that no longer fits.
The ‘Be Good, Do Good’ program is actually a follow-on to a longer running program at work called ‘Let’s Cook & Eat Goodies‘. Various really skilled bakers vying for culinary supremacy are constantly leaving piles of homemade tollhouse cookies, brownies and cupcakes in the office kitchen. I am unable to resist.
The combination of being immobilized for most of the work day, getting up only to grab yet another brownie, was too much. The Be Good, Do Good program was a possible way to combat its more sinister companion.
So I committed to bike to the office in Boston from my home in Concord—about 25 miles each way—once a week for the whole summer. And, since my wife Betsy has MS, I chose the 150-mile MS Cape Cod Bike Ride as my cause. My own monetary contribution will be $210 which I will earn by not buying my July commuter rail pass, using my bike to commute each day in July instead. And Credo will be chipping in $500 too!
If you want to find out more about the Multiple Sclerosis Society, or to sponsor my ride, please go to http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/peterc
Image “Poster advertising Gladiator bicycles and motorcycles” – find out more about it on Credo Reference.
