Project 11

Hello,
I was looking through my profile and I noticed that I was following a blog called Project 11. The blog is kind of disabled now, the links do not work and it is kind of over, but I decided to tell you about it anyways.
So in the summer of 2008, my uncle passed away from an 11 year battle with melanoma skin cancer. He had had 17 major surgeries, and was on many drugs many of which made him very sick at times. He went through chemo, radiation, you name it. He was a very strong fighter. Any time that you would try to talk to him about it, he would very quickly change subjects, and act like nothing was wrong and that he was fine. Even if he was sitting in a hospital bed. When he was first diagnosed, the doctors said he had at most 18 months and he lived 11 years past that. The doctors were all shocked as to why he was still alive. My uncle was very healthy. He really liked to ride his bike. Every morning, if he was well enough, he would get up and ride his bike. He was also very inspired by Lance Armstrong and his cancer foundation.
My uncle is the reason that my parents know each other. They would not have known each other if it wasn't for my uncle. My mom would not be the same person she is without him. He was like a father figure in her life because her dad died when she was 8.
All of that to say, that when he died, his son (my cousin) started up a project called Project 11. The goal was to do 11 events (triathlons, marathons, duathlons, centuries, etc) in 11 months and raise 11,000 dollars all for one man's 11 year battle with cancer. The money all went to the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research.
So my cousin and my dad did these events and we brought others into it as well. We had some family friends who did a century bike ride (and for those of you who don't know what that is..it is a 100 mile bike ride). Another goal was to get people into healthy life styles that they could carry out. My father started into the sport of triathlons and he is still doing them today. He had always been a biker, but he was not so great at swimming. He had the run down ok as well. He did most of the races with my cousin if he was around. I did a few triathlons. And we had some other people brought into it. Universal Sports found us and posted an article on their website. The link to it is.... http://www.universalsports.com/news/article/newsid=346939.html
The project is over now. We raised over 7,000 dollars. It was not as much as we had hoped for, but still a lot considering we were in economic hard times so they said.
Right now, for some reason the blog is not really working. None of the links are working. I will ask my cousin if I get a chance if he can make it work again..but I am not sure he will have time. His wife just had a baby recently.