Ride for the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey (BIANJ)

The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey is a non-profit organization that brings together people with brain injury, their families and friends, and concerned allied health professionals to improve the quality of life people experience after brain injury. The organization has long held their Walk for Thought fund-raising event in Paramus, NJ. This year they are adding a charitable bike ride called Cycle for Safety in Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, NJ.

This ride will be held Saturday, October 16. There are routes for everyone (10, 25, and 50 miles). They have a first class group, G4 Productions organizing. This group is bringing the 2012 Giro D'Italia to American soil!!

Registration is available online through Active.com or you can download a brochure here.

Brianne Ride for the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey (BIANJ)

They say a picture tells a story or a picture's worth a thousand words, but Brianne Applegate below is one of those stories.

Brianne Applegate suffered a car accident on Februay 1, 2008 and has spent the time since recovering from a C2 fracture, frontal lobe damage and a punctured lung. She has seen multiple specialists and been in multiple facilities (lastly the Kessler Institute for 9 months) and, when I met her last week, seems to have made a most remarkable recovery. This was certainly due to the resources, love and dedication of her parents Brian and Maryanne and their family.

Her full account to the Trentonian is here.

Brianne lived to tell the tale, and is now working to raise awareness through BIANJ. Others aren't so fortunate and rely on wonderful organizations like BIANJ for moral and financial support and helping in finding the right medical practitioners and facilities.

You can support the BIANJ through Causes, a facebook application. Here you can donate directly or invite others to get the word out.

Please join me and other cyclists in riding for this wonderful cause!

This guest post is from Barry Peters. Barry Peters is an ex Fortune 100 IT exec and lifelong gadgetophile loving photography, wine, song and customer service. He loves networking with interesting and visionary people. Also a Bucks County resident, he also has a great love of the active outdoors.