Ride to the beach! Raise some money for Lung Disease. This year I took it a little more seriously, planned ahead and did some more canvasing for support. Thanks to your help I managed to raise $650 in donations. Brilliant.
I rode "Reach the Beach" with my cycling team, Team Beer! Reach Beach is not a race, it's a fundraiser. A few years back one of the members of Beer! passed away from a lung related disease, so this ride is very close to heart with Team Beer!
In my small world of cycling, commuting and racing it's easy to forget the overall perspective of heath and cycling. The Reach The Beach ride is a an organized ride with thousands of riders who are supporting a good cause, it's not a race and it's a really encouraging and even a milestone event for normal non racer type people. Think about joe average riding 100miles.. pretty amazing... encouraging bike advocacy, fitness and raising money.
- Three thousand cyclists participated in this year’s Reach The Beach. The event sold out two weeks before the ride this year. We anticipate this trend continuing as people find out what a great day of riding Reach The Beach can be!
- The event raised more than $600,000 in sponsorships, donations, merchandising and registrations. This was another fundraising record for the event with almost all of the money coming in from $10, $25 and $100 donations.
We set off at around 6am in Portland where we jumped on the train over to Beaverton where the start was. We started about 8am and rode 104miles with many rest stop sand pee breaks in between to eventually arrive at Pacific City at the seaside at around 4:30pm.
The team rented a house at Pacific City at the seaside so we could stay overnight. The next day I rode back to Portland the next day with Clint an ex teammate, slightly different route but for a total of 217miles! whoot whoot..
Lot's of ride photos here
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Thanks for everyones help. Sincerely James
