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Friday, August 28, 2009
Cycling in Korea: Daebudo Island (Gyeonggi Province)
I've been extremely busy the past two weeks...new projects in my MA program, teaching, and family which takes precedence over all, including cycling, which is my lifeline to continue the life in Korea. Today, we gathered around the kitchen table and ate pancakes, lovely crepes that Mi Sung has been cooking up lately. I went outside to leave for work, saw a smog-free sky, went back inside, changed into cycling gear and off I rode to Daebudo Island (directly from Siheung/Shiwa Tide embankment, or the end of Line 4 OIDO STATION, directions for riders in Korea). Fantastic flats out there, some wetlands to look over, a few loaded trucks, but for the most of it, just me and my cycle, have to love cycling, it takes you everywhere you want to be! I'm on the cyclist's diet (Murray DP's Special!) and it's plenty of fruit and vegetables, low fat everything else, no meat, and Mi Sung adds a bit of fresh fish (omega-3!). Powerful rides on a lighter stomach and I'm taking weight off the wheels, faster spins, it's going quite well now! Special thanks to Bob Stewart of LaSalle, Ontario for the great piece on "One - Arctic to Argentina 2012" It is important to share the mission on the 25,000km expedition from the Arctic raising awareness of Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) which are both incurable, painful and often debilitating diseases that affect 200,000 Canadians and 1.4 million Americans today (those are only North American estimates!). I am coordinating this Charity-Cycling Mission with IDEAS - Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society of Canada and GYGIG - Get Your Guts in Gear, both raising international awareness of the fight that millions live with until we can help them find a cure!!! I ride for all of them, today, tomorrow, and into the distance horizons from the Arctic in 2012. Stay with me, get involved, join the rides!
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About the Korean-World Author
Brian has completed his second mountain bike journey, MongoliaX expedition - Crossing Mongolia 2012, an unsupported mountain bike MTB expedition across 2500km of Outer Mongolia from Ulanbaatar to Altai Taven-Bogd National Park bordering China, Russia and Mongolia.
In 2013, as a sequel to a trilogy of cycle tours, Brian enjoyed a more leisure bicycle tour onboard his Koga-Miyata World Traveller seeing the northern tier of the United States and western Canada covering 3400 kilometers / 2000 miles in 30 days. This North American cycle tour was called Totherocktour. Enjoying the adventure of bicycle travel and every great conversation started while traveling on the road - has refueled his inspirations to cycle around the Earth. In 2013, while he cycled solo from the Great Lake State of Michigan, United States to Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He weaved through local communities and reconnected with friends, family and community after spending almost a decade in Asia.
Brian is now supporting several non-profit foundations through expeditions: IDEAS Foundation of Canada IDEAS is the acronym for Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society which supports the IBD community, those suffering from IBD-inflammatory bowel disease, also known as Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis.
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