2010 Ride for the Cure / Roule pour la vie

Fifty-two Novartis Canada employees are cycling 600km from Toronto to Montreal Sept 25-28, 2010 to raise awareness & money for breast cancer research. This website shares the team’s preparation & stories from the road. Cette année, 52 employés de Novartis Canada parcourront à vélo les 600km qui séparent Toronto de Montréal, du 25 au 28 septembre, pour recueillir des fonds pour la recherche sur le cancer du sein. Ce site Web diffusera leur histoires du voyage.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Statistics from the ride

Overall distance: 604 km
Longest ride: 200 km (6.5 hours of riding, 7:15AM start)
Avg speed of longest ride: 31km/h (calm conditions, and a 5km/hr tail wind just outside of Brockville)
Approx. number of revolutions made by our legs during the 200km ride: 33,000
Fuel for each day's ride: 6-7 large water bottles (half with Gatorade), 2-3 bananas, granola bars, peanuts (salted), 2 Power bars, 12 inch all-dressed sub for lunch with 2 cookies and juice, 4 Aspirin.
Mechanical problems: nothing serious, a loose headset & handle bars, two flat tires (one exploding in the hotel lobby in Toronto), and a few miss-aligned gears by the end of the trip
Estimated time needed for legs and backside to recover: 1-2 weeks (except Anne, who could have probably rode back to Toronto the next day)
Rain: only 5 min, just outside of Montreal
Number of donors supporting the team: over 250
Overall funds to date: over $21,000 (and still growing)
Stories collected from those affected by breast cancer while on the road: 5
Approximate number of Novartis employees awaiting our arrival: 100
Number of inquiries about next year's ride (already): 10

...and about the blog?
Days the blog has now been live: 13
Number of members: 7
Number of posts: 25
Number of visits: 350
Average visits/day: 36
Average visit length: 6 minutes 15 seconds
Number of pages viewed: 1,201
 
Site Meter