From DailyKos.com
by sfbob
This story represents the end of an era for me. Since I joined Daily Kos in July 2006 I have, every year, posted a story on or around my birthday related to my participation in AIDS/LifeCycle (ALC), a seven-day charity bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles (or if we want to be technical from Daly City into San Francisco, then to and through Los Angeles into Santa Monica). Long before I began my participation the ride was an annual event beginning as the California AIDS Ride (CAR) in 1994. As you can tell from its names the ride has raised money to fund AIDS and HIV treatment and prevention. It’s taken place every year on one form or another every year since that first year; there as a virtual version in 2020 and a home-based version in 2021. Unfortunately this year’s event will be the last one. By any name it is surely the single largest and most successful AIDS-related charity event in history. Since it began it has raised over 300 million dollars. I came along in 1999. My personal fundraising efforts have generated not quite $250,000 of that total which amounts to about 0.08333% of that $300 million.