• Chris reflects on his 24 hour ride

  The hardest part for me was the new set of lights and the average speed being disrupted by this. I stopped counting at the pit stop where I had 111 laps registered (love that number) because I was nearly delirious with anger at my luck to be faced with failing due to traffic lights and my mantra of obeying the law. At 111 laps we had only gotten a ...
  

• BSAFE 24 Hour Challenge this weekend

  The BSAFE 24 Hour Challenge will take place this weekend, November 12/13, starting at 12 noon on Saturday and finishing at 12 noon on Sunday. The fundraising effort is growing steadily, but with only one third of the $50,000 target raised there is a sense of urgency to get the message out to the public and businesses that believe in the mission of ...
  

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• Training Update #3: busy roads and new traffic lights!

  Finally managed to get a dusk to dark transition ride in.  Started at 6pm just as it was getting dark and rode until 9pm. I have been meaning to check out the traffic during our rush hour to see how many red lights I would encounter, unfortunately my fears were confirmed…I only got one green light which came at the very end of this 3 hour session. ...
  

• Training Update #2; POV video tour of course

  Chris rode a mega training session on Sunday starting at 1.30 in the morning and finishing just before noon. He completed 201.8 or 56 laps in 8 hours, 55 minutes and 33 seconds, comfortably above designated pace. One and a half hours was lost to a little roadside maintenance for a fellow rider. Chris averaged 26.2 km/h giving him a total ride tim ...
  

To raise a funding shortfall of $50,000 Chris Ghiorse will be riding for 24 hours with the goal of covering 500km in that period to the fill the gap and ensure that the programme runs in all the schools for 2011/2012.

The ride will take place on the weekend of November 12/13 starting at 12 noon on Saturday and finishing on Sunday at 12 noon. The course will be laps of the Sir Francis Drake Highway between Port Purcell roundabout and the main roundabout in the Road Town. In keeping with the principles of BSAFE, all road regulations will be observed throughout the ride.

The BSAFE 24/500 HQ will be at the entrance to the Recreation Ground where there will be rest stops and the support team.

BSAFE aims to provide all children free safety awareness and fitness education. BSAFE uses bicycles as the tool to teach these valuable life lessons to children. BSAFE surveyed Althea Scatliffe Class 4 and 5 students (202 were present on the day of the survey) and found that 95% (191) of these students would like to participate in what BSAFE can offer them. In 3 years BSAFE has:

Graduated over 700 students in the Level 1 course with ages ranging from 8 to 11

Taught over 250 children on Learn to Ride weekends with ages ranging from 3 to 14

BSAFE has given away over $40,000 worth of equipment in the form of bikes, helmets, t-shirts and bottles.

In 24 hours, Chris plans to cover 500km which is the equivalent to cycling to Dominica from Tortola. In this time, Chris will:

• burn 15,000 calories - a mere 12 Double Quarter Pounders with cheese and large fries from McDonalds will replace those calories
• potentially stop at 560 red lights
• pedal 100,000 strokes
• drink 37.85 litres (10 gallons) of water
• cycle 140 laps of Road Town, Tortola

Challenge yourself, support Chris and achieve the lofty goal of becoming a 1KR