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   I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, 
   that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was 
   simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll 
   just have to see".
      - Dick Fosbury, who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 
      Mexico games after he invented a revolutionary high-jump 
      technique.

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1)  About today's quote
2)  National Bicycle Greenway to Break Ground in Santa Cruz 
    http://www.bikeroute.com/NBG2KSCtoWats8-99.html
3)  The Golden Spoke and the NBG
4)  How the Greenway network will grow like the brain grows 
5)  Will I Am fires up Austin for Andy
6)  Andy Parker to be in Lance Armstrong parade
7)  Andy Parker to meet mayor of Austin on behalf of NBG
8)  Easy Street Mike Librik  overhauls Andy�s bike 
9)  Will and Andy meet Texas Bicycle and Pedestrian committee
10) Fred Meredith to publish Andy in Austin Cycling News
11) Preston Tyree accommodates & maps Andy to Los Cruces New Mexico
12) $50 donation from Tom Dunham for Andy 
13) Andrew Morton throws $100 at Andy
14) GoAndy mailing list 
15) Major sponsor for GreenFest 2000?
16) Andrew Phillips readies for our Interbike arrival
17) Feature Article interview for Swing for NBG   
18) Boston�s Lincoln Guide to serve as Boston Anchor 
19) Ohio to DC?  
20) Cgi Help need for ride partner data base
21) InterNational Bicycle Greenway?
22) Ned Konz checks in from Colorado
23) Enviro Facts on main page now: 
    http://www.bikeroute.com/EnviroFacts.htm
24) Hamilton spreads the NBG word
25) NBG on TV last nite with Steve Lucky & Carmen Getit!
-   Welcome new sign-ups and how to reply
-   Getting your non-email friends signed up
-   How you got on this list
-   How to get off of this list
-   Enviro Fact
-   Important NBG Links
-   Closing Quote 

1) Is our grand vision of the National Bicycle Greenway just another
version of the now famous Fosbury Flop? In all probability it will be! I
mean how much more can we go against the grain when the whole way America
goes about its daily living is working against us? For far too many, cars
and the roads that support them are the only way of life they know. 
 
Many used to find great humor in Fosbury�s smaller victories  but doubted
that he would ever have the tremendous degree of success that he ended up
having. Nor did they ever expect that his style would influence the whole
new levels of leapers that would raise the bar for high jumpers the world
around. He was different. But he stayed with it. And that is how we have
got to accept ourselves and the challenge before us if we are going to hit
paydirt.

To tell your neighbor or casual friend that you are giving of your time,
money or bicycle riding efforts to help build a coast-to-coast network of
bicycle highways may cause them to dismiss you as a dreamer only needing
to fill some of the excess time you may have on your hands. And yet
therein lies the key. Keeping after it long beyond the point where its
novelty has worn off.

Really digging in there, rolling your sleeves up when it gets to be just a
little bit hard. Shrugging your shoulders as did Fosbury and just staying
with it. That�s the mark of a champion. 

Whether it�s sticking to the training regimens we have outlined at 
   http://www.bikeroute.com/S2KNewsletter 
or keeping the word out there  with our posters and handouts, etc, if you
keep after it the rewards will be nectar sweet!

Let�s all do the Fosbury in the words ahead  as we jump into the next
millennium with a success that has no comparative equal!

-- 
            M a r t i n   K r i e g       
               Attacking with Love         
      Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor  
    '79 & '86 TransAm Vet, "Awake Again" Author
   TransAm w/us in 2000: http://www.BikeRoute.com
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