Three Media Partners Are Covering Bicycling for a Cause on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Bicycling for a Cause joyfully welcomes its new media partners. A reputated outdoor magazine as well as two well-established local newspapers are planning to cover the Blue Ridge Parkway end-to-end bicycling ride in September 2011 that helps to raise funds for Eliada Homes for Children of Asheville, North Carolina.

Asheville, NC, August 30th, 2011. A very warm welcome and thank you to our three new media partners. We greatly appreciate their help to spread the word about Bicycling for a Cause's Blue Ridge Parkway ride to help raise funds for Asheville's Eliada Homes for Children. The youngsters of Eliada love bicycling and would love to have a few more than their current three bicycles that are available to enjoy the rides around the home and the attached farm. Moreover, the farm hosts the therapeutic animal program, where funds for taking care of llama LLary, horse Kiwi, and all the other animals - big and small - are very well appreciated.

The first editor-in-chief to respond and suggest to print a feature essay of the riders' motivating drivers and experiences during the physically and mentally challenging adventure, was the outdoor magazine that is well-known throughout all of the Southern Appalachians. It's the Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine of Charlottesville, Virginia, that also runs a local office in Asheville, North Carolina. The offer from the magazine to run the article is really great as it has a broad reach and can speak to many Blue Ridge enthusiasts who also have a dream of riding the mountains. We greatly appreciate it.

Asheville's is located in Buncombe county and our neighboring county to the West is Haywood County which has some of the Blue Ridge Parkway's most popular climbs. The roughly 15 mile-long climb from Asheville, NC, up to Mount Pisgah will be mastered by our cyclists on their penultimate day of being in (and on this uphill part, surely out of) the saddle. Haywood County has been served for well more than a century by one and the same newspaper, the Mountaineer. This newspaper publishes local and regional news and they certainly stand out of the crowd: when you visit their website, you will find mostly positive, up-beat news that uplift the readers. We find that remarkable and are glad to hear, that the Mountaineer will be running some of our upcoming press releases.

"We'd like to know what day you're coming through Blowing Rock on your ride - it'd be a perfect photo opportunity" that or something very similar we heard on our answering machine just yesterday. The message had been left by a voice that belonged to the editor of the Blowing Rocket, Blowing Rock's long-time leading newspaper, published on a weekly basis. We were thrilled, of course, by this opportunity. As of today, it'll be day 6 of our tour, or September 17th, that our path crosses this lovely resort town in Western North Carolina, whose population varies between a core of some 2,000; 10,000 in skiing-season; and 20,000 in the Summer.

Upcoming press releases of Bicycling for a Cause will lay out the detailed itinerary of the 469-mile-Bicycling-project for Eliada Homes on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Stay on your toes and be looking forward to them! You can become a sponsor in many ways, every penny makes a difference. And please spread the word: blog about it, share it on Facebook and email your friends who you think would be interested. Many many thanks.