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heroes continued from p.7 stored in Vermont having a triple chainwheel for the hills. He also took to bike commuting, riding from their home just off the Capital Crescent Trail in Chevy Chase, Md., to offices in downtown Washington. But the foray into long distance bike riding last year was something he hadn’t even considered until he rode with wounded warriors two years ago. “I went on one of their (World TEAM Sports) rides, th e Face of America ride, two years ago (this year on April 15-17, from the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., through Frederick, Md., and ending at Gettysburg Battlefield, Pa.), and it made such an impression on me that I joined the board (of World TEAM Sports). “I worked with the then president of World TEAM Sports to design the route and policies and procedures for a cross country bike ride last summer, which I led with Van Brinson (now Chief Operations Officer of World TEAM Sports). “The purpose of that cross country ride was to demonstrate that disabled people, in this case they were wounded warriors, could do anything. To demonstrate that you should not let your disability dissuade you from undertaking athletic events. Three things happen in all of our events: the disabled participants develop self confidence and some degree of physical fitness depending on what the event is. Obviously, on a cross country ride they develop a lot of physical fitness. “Secondly, the disabled become a model for other disabled people who may be just sitting on the couch not doing anything athletic and they would come out and see us on this cross country ride and they would say ‘I’m sitting in a wheel chair. Why can’t I do something like that, mom?’ Or ‘why shouldn’t I get out and do something?’ Maybe not ride a bike--it might be anything. “And thirdly, all of our events are what we call inclusive. That means we always mix both able bodied and disabled bodied people together in our events and what happens then, during the actual event, is the able and disabled bodies participants work as a team. “Disabled are a true inspiration for the able bodied people, both the riders and the spectators. Because when you see the disabled people riding across the country or whatever they are doing it’s very hard to convincingly say that you as an able bodied person have a real lot of trouble. You basically say, ‘boy, watching that person, paralyzed from the waist down, ride across the continental divide and on a hand bike. If she can do that, and we had a woman from the Navy who did that, how can I start complaining about my day?’ Bremer just took the reins of World TEAM Sports over the winter but he intends to return to being a bike commuter, riding downtown nine miles each way on the Capital Crescent Trail from his home in Chevy Chase, Md. Bremer commuted to work by bike for two and a half years when he was managing partner of Marsh Crisis Consulting, located at 23rd and N Streets. “This is a wonderful area to ride in. There’s the obvious iconic riding around the monuments, which is very impressive, but the real bicyclists are out on the rural roads of Maryland and Virginia. I ride mostly in Maryland because I live there. I tend to ride up towards Frederick. I don’t ride in Rock Creek Park that often. In the summertime, I sometimes do a short 10 or 20 mile ride from my house. We live 100 yards from the (Capital) Crescent Trail, so I just take the Crescent Trail and I’m there.” On April 15-17 you can ride with Bremer and many American heroes at the Face of America ride, beginning on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and ending on the battlefields of Gettysburg. For details log onto www.worldteamsports.org/events/face-of-america 8 April 2011
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