Just over a month ago, on August 16, I rode to Niagra Falls and back! This was the 5th year in a row that this ride has happened (my first year). This Niagra Falls ride is part of the Ride For Karen (which i'll talk about later) and it started as a bet to see if the Chain Reaction store and the Trek store could gather a select few people to see if this could be pulled off and if so Gino, who works at Ristorante Pinocchio would donate a vary generous amount to Ride for Karen. This year 13 people including Kris and Kurt Tobias, the founders of Ride For Karen took part in the 290km ride. It just happens to be that the ride landed on one of the hottest days of the month, at 28 degrees Celsius. Together we drank over 25 GALLONS of water! Personally I didn't find the heat too bad other than my feet swelled up a bit and started to hurt, but hey, you can expect to be completely comfortable when you're biking for 12 hours straight. All together it was an amazing day, everyone finished, and lots of money was raised towards an amazing cause!
The actual Ride for Karen event was last weekend on September 13th. This was the ninth year it has taken place and it has grown so much. Since it started 9 years ago over 1 MILLION dollars has been raised towards sending kids with cancer to camp. I took part in the century ride (160km) but there is also shorter distances so that people of all ages, and skill, can be apart of this amazing day. Everything from registration, to fund raising, to the lunch stop was organized so perfectly thanks to over 50 volunteers that made this ride possible. It seriously is just an all around great day and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to raise some money for a great cause and participate in a very fun ride. I hope to do this ride for many, many years to come and so should you!!!
If you're interested check out my Ride For Karen profile and even though the event has already past if you're feeling generous donate to help me reach my fund raising goal. THANKS!
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Dylan Street
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2 months ago
Awesome job! I did the Ride for Karen in 2008 and 2007, it's an awesome group of people and a great cause.
ReplyDeleteOh and if you look at my profile pic or my Ironman bike pics, the jersey I'm wearing is from the Ride for Karen! :)
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