The California Triple Crown, 2012

Benefitting The University of Southern California's Gould School of Law's OUTlaw Scholarship Endowment.

As the only LGBTQ law student organization at the law school, OUTlaw is also the first student group to establish a scholarship endowment at USC law.  The scholarship will be guaranteed for all three years that the recipient attends USC, unlike scholarships at peer schools, which are often conditional.  
The scholarship aims to further LGBTQ advocacy and to ratify USC law's identity as the most diverse top-20 law school in the United States.

To do this, we need to raise $100,000.  Last year we raised $27,000.  
We are asking you for your help.

This year, I've decided to complete the California Triple Crown.  This requires completing 3 200mile bike rides that are recognized by the California Triple Crown Committee.  I decided to do this in August, and so this left very few calendar-able races.

The first was White Mountain.  Whew.  On September 15th, I rode 200mi through the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest in Northern California, into Nevada, and back to Bishop, CA.  It took just over 13 hours, involved a single 10,000ft climb (and several smaller ones, all at high altitude).  I survived, and my dogs liked the road trip.

The second is this weekend, September 29th, and sure enough, we are heading to Northern California again to complete the Knoxville double century.

The third isn't until October 13th.  This is the Solvang Autumn double, which the organizers were kind enough to point out is, "Significantly more challenging than the Solvang Spring double."  
I'm not sure what this translates to, but it's another 10,000 feet of climbing.  C'est la vie.

What do I need from you?  I want to raise $3000 for the scholarship endowment by completing this challenge.  I made sure to hold off on advertising the fundraising push until I was sure that I could complete a double, and since I did, here is the plea.  Fundraising link is forthcoming.