Jun 18, 2009
Bike MS Training Rides to Start June 20th
Stephane Phipps
The Central North Carolina Chapter of the National MS Society has announced that sponsoring Bicycle Shops will host supported training rides especially for Bike MS participants or anyone who is interested in Bike MS starting June 20th. The training rides will continue on Saturdays throughout the summer until September 12 in preparation for Bike MS: BB&T Tour to Tanglewood on Sept. 26 and 27.
The training rides are open to cyclists of all experience levels. Registration for the training rides begins at 7:30 a.m with a safety brief at 8:15 a.m. The training ride begins promptly at 8:30 a.m. The training rides will be held as follows:
• Jun 20 - J & L Bicycle Company, Burlington
• Jun 27 - Mock Orange Bikes, Winston Salem
• Jul 11 - Spinz Bicycle Shop, Archdale
• Jul 18 - Ken's Bike Shop, Winston Salem
• Jul 25 - Paceline Bicycles, Winston Salem
• Aug 8 - Paceline Bicycles, Greensboro
• Aug 15 - Clemmons Bicycle, Clemmons
• Aug 22 - Paul's Cycling & Fitness, Winston Salem
• Aug 29 - Cycles de Oro, Greensboro
• Sep 12 - Bicycle Toy and Hobby, High Point
Bike MS is one of the National MS Society’s three main charity events in addition to the MS Walk and the MS Challenge Walk. Raising over $1.12 million in 2008, this event is the Chapter’s largest fundraiser.
Last year 1,700 cyclists participated in the event, both beginners and experienced riders. The Chapter hopes to increase participation to 2,000 and donations this year to $1.2 million.
The ride is 2 days and 90 miles with shorter and century routes available. The first leg takes place from Volvo Trucks in Greensboro to Tanglewood Park in Clemmons. The next day, cyclists ride back to cross the finish line in Greensboro.
General registration for the Tour to Tanglewood is $40 with a suggested individual fundraising goal of $200. All money raised during this event will be used by the Central North Carolina Chapter of the MS Society to help support families with MS and fund research to create a world free of MS. For more information on the ride, call (336) 299-4136 or visit the website and register online at http://bikencc.nationalmssociety.org.
About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information from the brain to the body and stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S., and 2.5 million worldwide.
About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
MS stops people from moving. The National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn't. Our mission is to mobilize people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by MS. We fund more MS research, provide more services to people with MS, offer more professional education and further more advocacy efforts than any other MS organization in the world. The Society is dedicated to achieving a world free of MS. We are people who want to do something about MS now. Join the movement at nationalmssociety.org.
About the Central NC Chapter
The Central North Carolina Chapter provides services and programs to nearly 2,300 people with MS and their families in fifteen North Carolina counties: Alamance, Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes and Yadkin.
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