The Inside Ride provides a great opportunity to lift collective spirits, to harness good will and bring out everyone’s best intentions, along with their dancing shoes, through the shared goal of raising funds to support children and teens living with and beyond cancer in your communities.
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Since 2007 the Ontario Inside Ride has grown extensively. The National Tour was our answer to the demand to bring the event to major cities across the country. Very quickly individual grassroots kids cancer programs – our national partners – have realized the potential of the event to create a sustainable source of funds to support their work and have begun requesting multiple events in their region. Together we have reached out to wonderful, community minded, socially responsible corporate partners (like Nokia in Ottawa and Team Finn Foundation in British Columbia) who fund the set up and operational costs of a groups of Inside Ride events in their geographic region. This is a step towards our dream of truly being Coast to Coast with the Inside Ride and establishing provincial/regional chapters of The Inside Ride
In each Regional Chapter a series of events take place through out the year or in a specific calendar week. The event is set up generally indoors, where between twenty and eighty professionally-maintained Louis Garneau hybrid bikes are mounted and held stationary on trainers, with distance and speed gauged with odometers. Team members have fundraised for approximately one-three months in advance of the fun event day.
On each bike is a team of six people and each cyclist rides for five or ten minutes to fun, fast-paced, uplifting music. As the cyclists rotate through #1-6 they are cheered on by teammates, friends, colleagues and spectators. Volunteers record team mileage, organizers score costumes and team spirit, and the Inside Ride Crew calculate fundraising totals. There are medals at stake for outstanding team fundraising, team spirit, team costumes, team mileage and top male, female and volunteer fundraising.
Step Two
CREATE a team of SIX and register online
Step Three
REQUEST forms and paperwork from the local organizer/host
Step Four
SET A GOAL and get active in your fundraising – fundraising ideas? – click here
Step Five
BE CREATIVE … think of a theme and create costumes, dedicate your ride to a child with cancer
Step Six
WATCH for updates, information and final instructions from your host & The Inside Ride and SUBMIT your fundraising and paperwork to your team captain on event day
Step Seven
Event day …CELEBRATE your success with a party with a purpose and be rewarded – Medals for Mileage, Spirit, Costume, Fundraising
