Ride Of Hope 3

There is now less than three weeks until the third annual ‘Ride of Hope’.

Performance Foods are pleased to be supporting The Ride of Hope once again for the third year running, taking place on Saturday 10th August at the Brighton Centre kicking off at 9am. The first two events were amazing experiences of emotion and energy. This year’s event, in comparison to the previous two, is enormous and that means it will be packed full of more amazing experiences and more emotion that the previous two.

Thanks to Matrix Fitness UK there will be a staggering 125 bikes, 25 rowing machines and 25 Krankcycles available for you to book for as little as one 45-minute ride or as many as all 12 rides. These have all been donated for the event. There will also be an area set up for you to bring your road bike or hand cycle and turbo trainer and ride that instead.

You choose which rides you want to do; you choose what modality you use and you decide exactly how much energy you put into the event.

The most frequently asked question regarding this year’s Ride of Hope event has been whether or not you have to do all 12 rides. Quite simply, the answer is “no”. If you want to do more, go for it, but you are encouraged to experience this event from the saddle for at least one session.

The price breakdown of the event is as follows:

1 ride – £20
2 ride – £30
3 rides – £45
4 rides – £50
5 rides – £65
6 rides – £80
7 rides – £95
8 rides – £100
9 rides – £115
10 rides – £130
11 rides – £145
12 rides – £150

These amounts can be paid either by yourself or by way of you acquiring sponsorship from friends/relatives/colleagues. If you have any concerns, please email therideofhope@gmail.com. It is incredibly important to remember that all the money you pay in to take part in the event goes to Cancer Research UK but more importantly, it stays in Brighton at the laboratories on the Sussex University campus that Cancer Research UK fund.

Here is the final timetable for the event:

9am… Rick Goodchild – Heroes
10am… Graham Burns – Speed, Power & Climbing through Italy
11am… Rickey-Dean Wasson – Courage
12pm… Simon Hewitt – The Ride of Dreams
1pm… Erik Mulder – Mont Ventoux
2pm… Brian Green – Hit The Target
3pm… Richard Collier – The Unholy Trinity
4pm… Natascha Spohr – Be Now
5pm… Cara & Damian Bouttell – The 3 Peaks Challenge
6pm… Mauricio Gooiker – Energy…Love…Passion
7pm… Richard Collier – It’s All About ME
8pm… Team Ride of Hope – The Team Ride

The booking process is simple:

1) Visit www.therideofhope.com and click on BOOK A RIDE. Here you can select what ride(s) you want to do and what equipment you want to use.
2) Click the Justgiving.com link to make the payment.
3) Click the link to complete the health questionnaire. This is necessary for everybody to complete due to the large amount of people in attendance.

You will then be sent a booking confirmation through to your email account.

The entire event is being streamed LIVE online, the footage will be available on therideofhope.com

The Brighton Centre will be opening its doors on the day at 8am. The first ride is scheduled to start at 9am.

If you would like to be an integral part of the event but do not want to ride, volunteers are required to help out throughout the day with filling water bottles, setting up bikes etc. If this sounds like you, email therideofhope@gmail.com saying what times you can definitely commit to.

On the Ride of Hope Facebook page there are trailers of most of the rides. You will also find news as it happens.