Say what?? 24 hours of who?? No worries...it's kosher. For the second year in a row, Brett participated in a charity bike ride here in Charlotte around what is locally known as the "Booty Loop". The race got its name from the see-and-be-seen 3 mile bike/run route around one of the hipper neighborhoods here. 10 years ago, someone decided to organize a 24-hour team ride to raise money for cancer research and awareness. 10 years later, it's a Charlotte institution, rasied over $1MM this year and has expanded to other cities. Not too shabby!
This year, the team (which is mainly comprised of people from our church) rode in honor of our friend Sydney, who is my age, the mother of three and has been living for a year and a half with a brain tumor; Amy, also my age, mother of an infant, recently diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer; and Jonathan, another church member recently diagnosed with cancer. Again, this year, Brett chose to be the middle-of-the night rider and he rode from the beginning of the ride at 7pm on Friday until 6:30am Saturday (he took breaks, but he was out there in the lonely wee hours).
Here are a few pictures from the party we had at the beginning of the ride.
The whole team:
Gratuitous action shot: 
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