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I don’t really know why I find these types of stories so interesting. I mean, it’s not like it’s a rare occurrence or anything like that. If you look, you can find probably at least a dozen examples of people doing things in this realm each and every year. However, I still find it interesting, perhaps because it is something that I (and most of the rest of the world) will likely never do. If I were able to do something along these lines though, I think I would enjoy it and would like to give it a shot.

Some of you may recall about a year ago (almost exactly) when I wrote this post about two guys pedaling their way across the country and linked to their Jokes Across America website. Well, I’ve recently come across a couple more similar feats being attempted and figured they would be a pleasant break from the normal blog topics. Don’t worry though, I’ll tie it back in to blogging.

I’ll be talking about two different cross country attempts in this post, one by professionals on foot and the other by amateurs on bicycles. As for the bicycle attempt, the purpose is to raise money for cancer research and the American Cancer Society. This trip is still in the early planning stages and is scheduled to start May 18, 2009. The trip (as planned) will start in New York, NY and end in San Francisco, CA. To learn more about this adventure, you can visit the Cycling 4 A Cure homepage. You can also check out their page at The American Cancer Society and make a donation to support them if you feel so compelled.

Their homepage site is hosted on blogspot and only has one post at this point. For right now, I’m sure they think blogspot will be a good thing for them on their trip. However, depending how much attention they want to try and gain and what they want to do with the site, I think I would probably recommend them getting a domain name and WordPress.

Moving on to the professionals, Running America is two guys who are experienced with “high adventure” activities such as running and mountain climbing. They are making a movie and trying to break a world record time in running from San Francisco to New York. They have several corporate sponsorships for this feat and started earlier this month with an expected end date near the end of October. If you look around their site, you might find this interesting link which might give you about as much screen time as Leo gets. They are looking for people to sign up to run with them and take part in the making of the movie.

Due to the purpose of their run and a variety of other factors, they (not surprisingly) have their own domain name. While the site itself has quite a few different features and parts to it, one thing that many of you may be interested in is that they have a “blogs” section which links to a subdomain of the main site and is running on a WordPress backend.

Anyway, I don’t know if you will find these as interesting as I do, but at the very least, I hope it was something fresh and different from the rest of the posts that have been appearing in your feed reader the last few days…you are subscribed to my RSS feed aren’t you?