Happy Birthday, Bobby

I'm a bit behind on the blogging about my Imaginary Bike Ride, but in the real world, today is January 21st. I wanted to break format just a bit, because today is Bobby Cann's birthday. For those that don't know Bobby's story, you can read a lot more here. In short, Bobby was a friend and cyclist who was killed by a drunk driver while riding his bike home from work on May 29th, 2013.

A lot of better writers, who knew Bobby much better than I did, have written beautiful things about him. I'll keep my thoughts related to this blog. In June of 2010, Bobby started a three-week cycling tour from New Hampshire to Chicago. He left on June 24th, and dealt with heat and hills in New York, a sore butt at Lake Ontario, mosquitoes in Hiawatha National Forest, had a staring match with a deer in Wisconsin, and rode over 100 miles on many days. He arrived in Chicago on July 14th. He was much more of a badass than I could ever be. This is one of the first things that I thought of when I came up with the idea for this blog.

Michelle Klosinski; courtesy Groupon

Bobby would be 28 years old today. Happy birthday, Bobby.