While I did not attend, I need to give a shout-out to the great work by the Club Fraser members who participated in the 24-hour charity fundraiser at the Computrainer Cycling lab at Fraser Bicycle, raising over $6,300.00 for various charities. Great work for some great causes. I'm not sure if it ended up happening, but I heard of a few members attempting an indoor century....starting at midnight! That's some serious mental fortitude for a January trainer session! The event summary, as posted by Club Fraser on their facebook page, is here:
Fraser Bicycle and Club Fraser held their 2nd Annual Pedal for a Purpose Lab-a-Thon to use sweat to raise funds for some very worthy causes. Eight teams of riders rode on various ‘courses’ without even leaving the bike lab! The riders traded off times from noon Saturday January 28th through noon Sunday January 29th with some very generous riders taking the overnight hours to truly make this a 24 hour fundraiser! They were joined by ‘drop-in’ riders who just wanted to spend an hour or two supporting their cause!
In the end, the teams themselves rode for over 2700 miles. That sweat and determination yielded $6363 to help support 11 different charities near and dear to the riders!
During those 24 hours, the teams even battled each other over the miles rode by their members. In the end, the Racing Greyhounds edged out the Yellow Submarine team. But the Yellow Submarine riders get the style points for their green flashing glasses that lit up the basement!!
Racing Greyhounds 465
Yellow Submarine (Bob) 404
Purple Team (Mike & Wayne)388
Team Ben (Trish) 372
Roman Cycling 358
Blue by You (Bonnie) 352
Red Team (Paul) 326
Team Ben 2 67
A special ‘Thank You’ goes to Fraser Bicycle who provided the facilities to help us ‘Pedal for a Purpose’! Extra special thanks goes to Paul Rogers, John Hoopingarner, Trish Marshall and Jedidiah Reich-Challis who stayed during the entire duration to help get riders checked in, bikes on trainers and courses set!
Thanks to everyone who donated toward the FANTASTIC spread of food, gels and beverages to help support the riders and those involved in the planning and support of this event.
The planning has already started for the 3rd annual Pedal for a Purpose!!
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