{"id":2597,"date":"2013-09-30T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:04:04","slug":"more-than-we-could-ever-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/more-than-we-could-ever-imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than We Could Ever Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/R2R-White-house-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2598\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/R2R-White-house-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Ritter and his Alaris in front of the White House\" width=\"576\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/R2R-White-house-photo.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/R2R-White-house-photo-400x298.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/R2R-White-house-photo-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we get a note that just stops us in our tracks, and we all take a moment to let the humble admiration set in. There may even be some goose bumps. When we got the note below from Aaron, there was a moment of quiet, followed by a hushed, \u201cwow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What some riders accomplish on a Seven never ceases to amaze us. Thank you Aaron, for being an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ritter.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2599 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ritter-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Aaron Ritter and his Alaris\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ritter-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ritter-400x536.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ritter-764x1024.jpeg 764w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ritter.jpeg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Hello everyone at Seven Cycles,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>My name is Aaron Ritter.\u00a0 I am active duty Navy; stationed in Virginia Beach, VA.\u00a0 Last year in February I was involved in a tragic motorcycle accident, resulting in the loss of my right leg below the knee and a few other injuries with it.\u00a0 After transferring to Bethesda Naval Hospital I discovered the Ride 2 Recovery program and began cycling.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Now, 19 months post injury, I am embarking upon a 2 day, 155 mile bike ride in support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eodwarriorfoundation.org\/\">Wounded Explosive Ordnance Disposal Warrior Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0 The event is called the Undefeated Ride.\u00a0\u00a0 I just wanted to reach out to you and let you know that this will not only be my first, formal cycling event; I will be cycling the entire distance on one of your bikes.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Thank you for such a great riding platform!!!<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Aaron Ritter<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we get a note that just stops us in our tracks, and we all take a moment to let the humble admiration set in. There may even be some goose bumps. When we got the note below from Aaron, there was a moment of quiet, followed by a hushed, \u201cwow.\u201d What some riders accomplish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/more-than-we-could-ever-imagine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Than We Could Ever Imagine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[242,748,24,246,243,6,245,244],"class_list":{"0":"post-2597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-aaron-ritter","7":"tag-axiom-sl","9":"tag-humbled","10":"tag-ride-2-recovery","11":"tag-seven-customers","12":"tag-undefeated-ride","13":"tag-wounded-explosive-ordnance-disposal-warrior-foundation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11671,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}