Opening Ceremony Guests
Riders may bring one guest to the Opening Ceremony on Friday, August 20, 2010. If you have not submitted the name of your guest yet, please log onto your profile page and complete the appropriate field to submit your guest’s name on or before Friday, August 13, 2010. Your guest’s name will need to be listed in order for your guest to obtain entry. Please call 614-221-6100 with questions.
Rides this weekend
There are several rides this weekend, including a Prospect on Saturday and Sunday, and a 60 mile ride from Amanda to Logan and back. Check the calendar for more information.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
New team member, 20th Anniversary of the James, and Fundraising tips for the final month
New Team Member
Please welcome Michael Pierson to our Team O-H-I-O. Mike is Diane Leesman's son-in-law.
20th Anniversary of the James
Tuesday, July 27, Noon-1:30 p.m.
OSU Medical Center Plaza
If interested or planning to attend, please contact Lindsey Gale
Fundraising Tips for the Final Month
A few of your fellow riders have put together how they made their final push last year
Roland Kreml
Last year, in the last 30 days I sent updates about my training via email to a list of friends and family. This was a weekly update that would talk about my training adventures, but I also had a “thermometer” graphic of my current fundraising and my total goal of $1,000. By the week of the Pelotonia, I had less than half of that raised. In my final email before the ride I talked about the Pelotonia, how important the research was, and that 100% of all donations goes directly to funding cancer research. In that last week, my total fundraising jumped from less than $500 to over $1,100! Most gifts were in the range of $10 - $50. The key to fundraising for me was asking friends and family to support the James in honor of my ride, to let them know my goal, and how much I have raised.
This year I have a blog for my updates. On my blog I put information about my training as well as how my readers can help. I would think that people would become bored with my training updates, but I get many people telling me that they enjoy my blog. I also know people are reading because I can see the amount of traffic coming to my blog (I'm a techie- I do these things!)
Karen Longbrake
My approach has been similar and I have already surpassed my goal. I created a distribution list of friends and family including those that donated last year and I sent an appeal. I heard a little after the first appeal but donations really started to come in after the 2nd email. I changed up my email a little and made sure to let folks know that a gift of any size was appreciated. I recently took advantage of the link via Pelotonia to connect their icon to my facebook status page and so that has gone out to many more folks than the original email. I added a line about 2 weeks ago regarding my Miami, Michigan and Penn St tickets offering a donor their choice of 2 tickets to one of those games if they make a gift of $1000. I think I have a taker as of yesterday. It is a guy I don’t know but he is friends with my sister from facebook and saw it on her status updates. If I get that gift I will sign up for the high roller status because I am at $2000 right now. I figure I can eeek out a few more bucks to get to $4000. I think the key is to not feel bad or uncomfortable about “Asking” most people can afford $10 and that is what makes the difference those gifts of $5 and $10!! I will definitely send out a 3rd email to my group thanking those that have made a gift and letting the others know it is not too late.
Vince McGrail
My fundraising has been closely tied to my family and hometown friends, because it has focused on my two sisters. I emailed a list of about 25 friends and family to start, personalizing each email, with the body of the email mostly the same, explaining why I’m riding with a link to my page. I also posted info on Facebook – updating friends about my rides, number of days until Pelotonia, and information about my family (since I was riding for my sisters). I sent a reminder email to all the week before Pelotonia, then an email the night before. I had raised about $800 toward my goal of $1,500 with a week to go to the event last year. In the two days before Pelotonia I had over $1,500 come in and then another $1,000 – mostly from people I hadn’t talked to in years in the weeks following – people I knew had emailed others and shared via Facebook. Don’t underestimate the power of a simple ask – and then follow up as people get busy and forget. As the day gets closer, media coverage goes up, and it’s a good time to remind people to give in the few weeks before the ride.
After the ride is also a good time to thank people and remind others that they can still give to support your ride. I raised a lot after Pelotonia last year – I posted a personal video on YouTube about the ride and linked to it in my follow up thank you emails.
This year, I started by emailing all of the 80 who gave to me last year, to thank them again and ask for support this year. I also started a blog, and have posted updates on Facebook and on twitter. I’ll do another email to 2009 donors two weeks before Pelotonia. Pelotonia has two new Facebook apps to help – one is a Pelotonia app to add a tab to your profile page, and the other is to share your page on FB, with an update of your goal and amount raised. They just posted this on the Pelotonia site in the last few weeks. Posting on FB reminds people what you’re doing and why, so when you email them they are more likely to respond.
Tuesday, July 27, Noon-1:30 p.m.
OSU Medical Center Plaza
If interested or planning to attend, please contact Lindsey Gale
Fundraising Tips for the Final Month
A few of your fellow riders have put together how they made their final push last year
Roland Kreml
Last year, in the last 30 days I sent updates about my training via email to a list of friends and family. This was a weekly update that would talk about my training adventures, but I also had a “thermometer” graphic of my current fundraising and my total goal of $1,000. By the week of the Pelotonia, I had less than half of that raised. In my final email before the ride I talked about the Pelotonia, how important the research was, and that 100% of all donations goes directly to funding cancer research. In that last week, my total fundraising jumped from less than $500 to over $1,100! Most gifts were in the range of $10 - $50. The key to fundraising for me was asking friends and family to support the James in honor of my ride, to let them know my goal, and how much I have raised.
This year I have a blog for my updates. On my blog I put information about my training as well as how my readers can help. I would think that people would become bored with my training updates, but I get many people telling me that they enjoy my blog. I also know people are reading because I can see the amount of traffic coming to my blog (I'm a techie- I do these things!)
Karen Longbrake
My approach has been similar and I have already surpassed my goal. I created a distribution list of friends and family including those that donated last year and I sent an appeal. I heard a little after the first appeal but donations really started to come in after the 2nd email. I changed up my email a little and made sure to let folks know that a gift of any size was appreciated. I recently took advantage of the link via Pelotonia to connect their icon to my facebook status page and so that has gone out to many more folks than the original email. I added a line about 2 weeks ago regarding my Miami, Michigan and Penn St tickets offering a donor their choice of 2 tickets to one of those games if they make a gift of $1000. I think I have a taker as of yesterday. It is a guy I don’t know but he is friends with my sister from facebook and saw it on her status updates. If I get that gift I will sign up for the high roller status because I am at $2000 right now. I figure I can eeek out a few more bucks to get to $4000. I think the key is to not feel bad or uncomfortable about “Asking” most people can afford $10 and that is what makes the difference those gifts of $5 and $10!! I will definitely send out a 3rd email to my group thanking those that have made a gift and letting the others know it is not too late.
Vince McGrail
My fundraising has been closely tied to my family and hometown friends, because it has focused on my two sisters. I emailed a list of about 25 friends and family to start, personalizing each email, with the body of the email mostly the same, explaining why I’m riding with a link to my page. I also posted info on Facebook – updating friends about my rides, number of days until Pelotonia, and information about my family (since I was riding for my sisters). I sent a reminder email to all the week before Pelotonia, then an email the night before. I had raised about $800 toward my goal of $1,500 with a week to go to the event last year. In the two days before Pelotonia I had over $1,500 come in and then another $1,000 – mostly from people I hadn’t talked to in years in the weeks following – people I knew had emailed others and shared via Facebook. Don’t underestimate the power of a simple ask – and then follow up as people get busy and forget. As the day gets closer, media coverage goes up, and it’s a good time to remind people to give in the few weeks before the ride.
After the ride is also a good time to thank people and remind others that they can still give to support your ride. I raised a lot after Pelotonia last year – I posted a personal video on YouTube about the ride and linked to it in my follow up thank you emails.
This year, I started by emailing all of the 80 who gave to me last year, to thank them again and ask for support this year. I also started a blog, and have posted updates on Facebook and on twitter. I’ll do another email to 2009 donors two weeks before Pelotonia. Pelotonia has two new Facebook apps to help – one is a Pelotonia app to add a tab to your profile page, and the other is to share your page on FB, with an update of your goal and amount raised. They just posted this on the Pelotonia site in the last few weeks. Posting on FB reminds people what you’re doing and why, so when you email them they are more likely to respond.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Where the money goes, Welcome new riders
Where the money goes
Have you been asked what happened to the money raised by last year's Pelotonia? Eugenia Maish has helped us with answering this question. The following link is the plan for the money raised in last year's Pelotonia.
Welcome New Riders!
Please welcome Archie Griffin, Melinda Swan, and Lisa Routt to Team O-H-I-O!
Team picture from the Team O-H-I-O meeting
Team picture from the Team O-H-I-O meeting
Monday, July 12, 2010
Events this week, note for 180 milers, and jersey news
Several events this week.
Note for people riding 180 miles
Jerseys
- Tuesday, July 13th: Pelotonia Training and Injury Prevention Event (FREE!)
- Friday, July 16th: Mayor's Twilight Tour and Bike Swap
- Saturday, July 17th: Steve Barbour Memorial Tour
Note for people riding 180 miles
- Anyone riding the 180 needs to update their profile to make their roommate request by next Thursday, July 15th.
- Anyone who does not select his or her roommate(s) by this date will be placed randomly and we will not be able to make changes once OU has confirmed the assignments.
Jerseys
- Don't forget to send Kelly Hebblethwaite-Johnson if you want a jersey, and the size
- Also send Kelly the names that you would like included on the jersey.
- Deadline is Tuesday, July 13th!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Team O-H-I-O meeting at 11:30 and training ride at 6PM Thursday, July 8th!
Training Ride
Team O-H-I-O is riding 20 miles from 1480 W. Lane Ave through Upper Arlington tomorrow at 6PM. Please join us!
Team Meeting
Hello fellow Team O-H-I-O members. The planning team would like you to join us, Tom Katzemeyer, David Wade, and Peter Weiler to talk about our Peloton, fundraising, and training on Thursday, July 8th from 11:30 – 12:30. Location is in the Mt Leadership room at Longaberger.
Team O-H-I-O is riding 20 miles from 1480 W. Lane Ave through Upper Arlington tomorrow at 6PM. Please join us!
Team Meeting
Hello fellow Team O-H-I-O members. The planning team would like you to join us, Tom Katzemeyer, David Wade, and Peter Weiler to talk about our Peloton, fundraising, and training on Thursday, July 8th from 11:30 – 12:30. Location is in the Mt Leadership room at Longaberger.
Sorry, we cannot provide lunch. The agenda of the meeting is below.
Please RSVP to Patty Dascenzo (Dascenzo.3@osu.edu) by Tuesday, July 6th
Thanks,
The Team O-H-I-O Planning Team
Agenda
· Welcome
· Jersey
o Cost
o Design
· Training rides and tips
· Fundraising Tips
o Hear from other riders how they raised money
· Logistics of the Pelotonia event
o Friday’s registration and bike drop-off
o Saturday’s start
o Getting home
§ Bus
§ Family pickup
· Team photo
o We will take a team photo at the end of the meeting
Friday, July 2, 2010
Westerville ride this weekend
Team O-H-I-O is riding the Westerville route again this Sunday, July 4th. There are 2 routes. A 16 and 25 mile. Kelly and I are planning to ride the 16 mile loop then the 25 mile loop.
Join us at 8 at the Hoover Dam Park. We will roll at 8:15.
Join us at 8 at the Hoover Dam Park. We will roll at 8:15.
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