SPOKE NOTES
South Florida Chapter
Visit us online at www.MSBikeFlorida.org
Riding for a Cause!
Thank you for your contribution and participation in the 25th Anniversary of the Zimmerman MS Bike Ride Presented by Mack Cycle and Fitness. With support from over 2,500 participants, the National MS Society continues to serve over 6,000 South Floridians living with MS and devotes resources to local and national research. Participants braved wind, heat and rain while showing their dedication for a worthwhile cause. The economic downturn has affected everyone nationwide and your assistance more than ever is needed to help those who may not be able to provide for themselves. As we work towards our goal of $1.8 million, we encourage you all to share your experience with a friend and invite them to participate in the MS Bike Ride on April 21 - 22, 2012. We hope you enjoyed the fun-filled rest stops, start/finish villages, beautiful scenery and most importantly the ride. You made a difference in helping others who need it the most.
Give Us Your Feedback! Staff Info
2
Club 151
3
Sponsors
2
Top Team & Special Awards 4 Prizes
5
Power Behind the Pedals
6
MS Bike Committee
5
We want you to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly. Please take a moment to fill out our Rider Evaluation Survey online at msbikeflorida.org. Surveys are important for us to learn what to improve. Share with us how we can continue to be the BEST ride in Florida.
An unforgettable ride. An unbeatable destination. A world free of MS.
SPOKE NOTES South Florida Chapter
Contact Us
National Multiple Sclerosis Society South Florida Chapter
3201 W Commercial Boulevard, Suite 127 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 954-731-4224 Chapter Website: www.nmssfls.org MS Bike Website: www.msbikeflorida.org Email: ms150bike@fls.nmss.org Karen Dresbach Chapter President
MS Bike Staff Ryon Coote Development Director Richard Brown Development Coordinator Sylvia Fierro-Culver Development Assistant Studies show that early and ongoing treatment with an FDAapproved therapy can reduce future disease activity and improve quality of life for many people with MS. Talk to your healthcare professional and contact the National MS Society at www.nmss.org or 1 800 FIGHT MS to learn about ways to help manage multiple sclerosis and about current research that may one day reveal a cure.
2
JOIN THE MOVEMENT: nationalMSsociety.org
Thank You Sponsors
The Society and the 6,000 South Florida residents living with MS would like to thank our sponsors for their support. These sponsors have joined the movement toward a world free of MS. 5 Hour Energy Miami-Dade College 42Below Miami-Dade County Parks & Alcatel-Lucent Recreation All American Barricades Miami VA Healthcare System Amateur Radio Public Service MillerCoors Corps. MIX1 American Airlines Monkey Jungle American Express Motorola American Massage Therapy National Beverage Corp. Association Nextran Corporation American Medical Response Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort Bacardi USA Inc. Pacific Health Labs Beauty School of America Pasha’s Beckman Coulter Pepsi Cola Bottlers BJ’s Wholesale Performance Health B&J Bicycles Powerade Bolthouse Print Dynamics Cabot Creamery Publix Cargill Americas, Inc. Republic Services, Inc. Cemex Rowell’s Marina Chiquita Ryder Truck Rentals City Bike Salix Premium Pet Products Circle K Sedano's Supermarket Clear Channel Radio - Miami Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Comcast Casino Cox Radio - Miami Sherwin Williams Dade Paper Solid Waste Management Dagney Johnson Park Sonias Sweet Temptations Dave & Buster’s South Dade Park Deering Estate Southeastern Recycling Corp. DHL Spinergy Downtown Bicycles Stranahan Senior High JROTC Engel’s Bike Shop Subway/IPC Enterprise Rent-A-Car Suddath Relocations Florida Bike Association The Praxis Institute Florida College of Natural Health The Produce Connection FoxSports Florida Trek Bicycle Corporation Frito-Lay, Inc. United Fire Protection Fuel Belt, Inc. United Rentals G4S Wackenhut UPS Grillstone Catering Vitamin Shoppe GU Energy Labs Velo’s Cyclery HealthSouth Veloce Speedwear Homestead Air Reserve Whole Foods Market Homestead-Miami Speedway WFOR-TV Ignited LLC/ ZICO Beverages WPEC-TV John Pennekamp Coral Reef WPTV-TV State Park WRMF-FM Kappa Sigma Fraternity WSVN-TV Keys Sanitary Services Zimmerman Advertising Kingswood Montessori Academy Lake Worth Bicycle Lauderdale Cyclery Lee’s Locksmith & Bicycle Shop Lincoln Financial Radio - Miami Mack Cycle & Fitness Maroone an Autonation Company McArthur Dairy, Inc. Memorial
Club 151 represents the top 151 fundraisers who “go the extra mile” in their fundraising efforts.
2011 Club 151 Members will receive the following benefits:
2011 Club 151 Jersey (if requested) Access to the Club 151 VIP Tent for the 2012 MS Bike Ride Access to VIP Massages on Day 1 and Day 2 of the 2012 MS Bike Ride Rider numbers between 1 & 151 for the 2012 MS Bike Ride (according to rank) VIP Parking at the start line of the 2012 MS Bike Ride Priority take-off at the 2012 MS Bike Ride start line
*Denotes 2011 Mission Possible Award Winners. Our Mission Possible represents those who raised $1 for each of the 6,000 South Floridians living with multiple sclerosis. Thank you to the following 2011 top fundraisers on an extraordinary fundraising job!
1. Lesa Kennedy 2. Mike Schweiger* 3. Keith Rosen* 4. Bruce Retzsch* 5. Craig Zoufaly* 6. Bill Sanderson* 7. Michael Hogsten* 8. Robert Kornahrens* 9. German Agudelo* 10. Russell Irvine* 11. Claudette Halluk* 12. Suzanne Kores* 13. Renee Ward 14. Glenn Basile 15. Gila Kimmelman 16. Chris Walters 17. Orlando Sosa 18. Jon Kushner 19. Daniel Edward 20. Keith Fowee 21. Gregory Kimmelman 22. Charles Martin 23. Fred Zuckerman 24. Alan Kurtz 25. Menachem Hecht 26. Stewart Gurr 27. William O’Neill 28. Michael Weinberg 29. Byron Reid 30. Jeff Wolach 31. Jean-Charles Fourcade 32. Michael Fine 33. David Buck 34. Susan Duque 35. Cheryl Lopez 36. Robert Schwartz 37. Steve Baptiste 38. Jonathan Berman 39. John Wrench
$22,800 $20,801 $20, 225 $14,515 $12,979 $12,700 $11,000 $10,670 $9,999 $8,934 $8,410 $7,175 $5,800 $5,641 $5,551 $5,000 $4,900 $4,719 $4,435 $4,076 $4,025 $4,025 $4,025 $3,914 $3,859 $3,775 $3,585 $3,501 $3,450 $3,450 $3,411 $3,410 $3,400 $3,350 $3,340 $3,330 $3,275 $3,261 $3,240
40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78.
Christopher Warren $3,200 Gerry Cullen $3,190 Dan Gitlitz $3,159 Oscar Sosa $3,075 Helen-Eleni Sonenreich $3,060 Chuck Kirsch $3,041 Alan Haimowitz $2,900 William Broome $2,890 Juan Saldarriaga $2,885 Beth Waldorf $2,880 David Elder $2,875 Andrew Taubman $2,841 William Bogard $2,821 Rex Hamilton $2,700 Antonio Jacomino $2,700 Daniel Dorb $2,680 Lanny Carrero $2,660 Malena Vareles $2,622 Douglas Bradbury $2,615 Howard Markowitz $2,600 Randall Haws $2,582 Oscar Sanchez $2,570 Peter Loughlin $2,550 Roselio Bohigas $2,500 Caroline Cunningham $2,500 Vance Lemmon $2,500 Marvin Levenson $2,472 Rodger Irvine $2,467 Manuel Carranque $2,460 Charles Deyo $2,450 Harry Tangalakis $2,450 To Chau Russo $2,400 Susan Touset $2,350 Lorne Reiter $2,349 Fred Glickeman $2,323 Carmen Marston $2,300 Steven Peeters $2,265 Kenneth Vega $2,241 Marc Lowell $2,236
79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117.
Stephen Calabro Stefanie Wortzel Norma Thomson Michael Stazzone Marie-Lisette Flores Steve Adolf Gary Sullivan Gregg Steward Manny Platis Howard Seiler Jorge Cameron Roland Poitevien Barry Blodinger Stephen Fenwick Sherry Hoffman Robert Krauss Al Lehman Jill Talbot Rafael Lara Thomas Schon Lucy O’Connor Jose Sepulveda Kevin Eggart Drew Schnitt Christian Hadfield Germaine Binns Bianca Autuori Teresita Cabal Jerry Layne Scott Davidson Nicole Bonilla Hiram Soto Michael Bannon Charles Titus Tere Camacho Miguel Morales James Taylor Corey Taub James Ball
$2,225 $2,200 $2,170 $2,151 $2,130 $2,155 $2,096 $2,086 $2,059 $2,040 $2,035 $2,005 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $1,999 $1,995 $1,983 $1,980 $1,930 $1,925 $1,920 $1,915 $1,891 $1,887 $1,851 $1,850 $1,830 $1,823 $1,815 $1,775 $1,750 $1,750 $1,750 $1,743 $1,735
118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151.
Greene Labuzan IV $1,725 James Paddon $1,725 Robin Ostertag $1,706 Daniel Land $1,705 Kris Dinges $1,701 Michelle Bazargan $1,700 Barry Wright $1,676 Bob Mulcahy $1,673 Thomas Panos $1,670 Mario Lopez Calleja$1,645 Bryan Faulmann $1,620 Lissette Lau $1,620 Jack Brown $1,616 Bruce Hedges $1,615 Andrew Thomas $1,615 Peter Banting $1,610 Derek Kramer $1,600 Jane Onufer $1,600 John Serpa $1,590 Daniel Getson $1,585 Melissa Kramer $1,575 Gary Smith $1,570 Tony Ortiz $1,565 Spenser Multack $1,560 Kurt Taylor $1,560 Anna Perez $1,555 Larry Rooney $1,535 Ron Goral $1,530 Randy Hummel $1,530 Matt Daniels $1,525 Michael Jacobson $1,521 Edward Knutel $1,520 Debra Ogilvie $1,520 Christina Brodie $1,510
www.msbikeflorida.org
3
Top 25 Teams 1. zMotion 2. BACARDI 3. Team Storm Riders 4. Mack Cycle & Fitness/ MiamiPace 5. DHL PEDAL ON FOR A CURE 6. Miami Bike Scene / MIA Fixed 7. Team MS
$226,765 $174,811 $ 93,172 $ 60,870 $ 51,492 $ 45,537 $ 37,305
8. G4S 9. BIKE AMERICA 10. Cargill Cares Miami 11. Enterprise Rent A Car 12. Microsoft 13. CSP Express/zMotion 14. American Express Centurions 15. Tar Peddlers/Solar Sprockets 16. WHOLE FOODS MARKET 17. Never Give Up
$36,640 18. Everglades Bicycle Club $29,105 19. Subway/IPC Bike Team $27,664 20. Team TradeStation $25,133 21. Remyelinators $24,276 22. Team Holman $20,905 23. On Your Mark Cycling $20,774 Club $20,635 24. General Mills $18,974 25. Cycle Counters $17,690
$17,488 $16,720 $15,279 $13,049 $12,376 $11,795 $ 9,999 $ 9,780
Special Awards
Best Team Name Most Improved Team Best Rookie Team Partner in the Fight Against MS Partner in the Fight Against MS Partner in the Fight Against MS Partner in the Fight Against MS Voted Best Rest Stop Day 1 Voted Best Rest Stop Day 2 Voted Best Bike Shop Highest Fundraising Average Team
4 www.msbikeflorida.org
Ride it like you stole it Bacardi Miami Bike Scene / MIA Fixed DHL Nextran Suddath UPS DHL American Express Mack Cycle and Fitness Cendyn
150 miles. One destination. A world free of MS.
2011 MS Bike Committee
Thank you to the 2011 MS Bike Committee who donated their time and expertise to make the MS Bike Ride a success. The ride would not be what it is today without the overwhelming dedication from our committee who make it all happen. Jason Swift Committee Chair
Etta Antonio - Dixon Nurse Coordinator
Ron Abrams JP Coordinator
Sgt. David Fariss Miami-Dade Police Coordinator
Mike Blatt Start/Finish Coordinator Bob Bodner JP Facilitator Delio Botero UPS Coordinator Merritt Burrus Route Logistics Assistant Joe Camus SAG Assistant Ernesto Diaz Motorcycle SAG Coordinator
Matt Ginn HAM Coordinator Vene Hamilton Nurse Coordinator Martell Given Nurse Coordinator Gary Hicks SAG Coordinator Larry House SAG Coordinator Racquel House SAG Coordinator
Paul Schloneger Route Safety Rafael Acosta Route Safety
Wayne Zimmerman Motorcycle SAG Coordinator Silvia Inman Bike Lock Up Coordinator Christy King JP Coordinator Julia Mayan Start/Finish Coordinator Javier Salinas Truck Logistics Assistant Kevin Scanlon Net Control
Alan Steel Bike Shop Coordinator Claretha Timmons Rest Stop Assistant Mark Lowe JP Coordinator
Dante Watson Trucking Logistics Assistant Gene Giblin Rest Stop Coordinator Dale Word JP Coordinator
Brenda Zelman JP Coordinator John Vecchio Communications
“Partner in the Fight Against MS”
“The Partner in the fight against MS” is a special award given to sponsors that go the extra mile to guarantee a successful ride. The ride faces new challenges each year and our partners help us to overcome these obstacles. In 2011, four very special companies assisted us in our time of need. They provided us with route trucks that serviced rest-stops and transported luggage and bikes. The 2011 “Partner in the Fight Against MS” award recipients are:
We are so appreciative of their support and look forward to their continued participation in 2012! www.msbikeflorida.org
5
“Power Behind the Pedals” Volunteer Award
How does Florida’s largest cycling event successfully take place each year? The answer lies in the hearts and hands of our dedicated volunteers. In 2011, three key volunteers went above and beyond the call of duty to ensure our ride was safe, well organized and most of all fully supported. The 2011 “Power Behind the Pedal” award recipients are:
Delio Botero
Rody Biennevil
Racquel House
Delio Botero, UPS Coordinator and long time rider, joined the committee and made an immediate impact during his first year. He secured route trucks and provided new and improved event storage and loading facility. Rody Biennevil, the man that never says no is always on the go! Rody continues to play a vital role in the success of the Village at John Pennekamp Park. His work ethic and eagerness “to get the job done” is second to none. Racquel House took the role of SAG Coordinator to the next level. Her organization and attention to detail was extremely apparent as she made an area of the ride even better. We congratulate these Power Behind the Pedal recipients and all volunteers for their dedication and support to our cause! South Florida Chapter 3201 W Commercial Boulevard Suite 127 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
NON-PROFIT U.S. POSTAGE PAID FT LAUD FL PERMIT 4435