Cycle of Service- State Line to State Line-and Century Ride!
Cycle of Service State to State Ride May 4-6 2012
Do you love Biking?
Does the problem of poverty frustrate you?
Do you want to make a difference in your community?
What is Cycle of Service? It is an intense but fun 3 day bike ride across the state to raise awareness about poverty housing in Alabama and raise money for home repair in Lee, Macon, and Sumter counties. Is this important? In counties such as Macon and Sumter, over 35% of the population struggles with poverty. What does that mean for someone’s home? It means a leaking roof when it rains, an unsafe floor from dry rot, or maybe the need for a wheel chair ramp. But on a limited or fixed income these problems get bigger and bigger. Cycling with us helps us repair homes for these families! You can be a part of the solution to ending the cycle of poverty in Alabama! Come join this fun team and bike with us!
So what will we do?
Century Ride Option: You can go over 100 miles on Day 1!
-May 3: We will meet in Livingston, AL and stage at the Southern Sportsman Hunting Lodge. A launch dinner will be hosted by Livingston United Methodist Church. We will have a time of worship and celebration with the Livingston community.
May 4th-Bright and early we depart from the Southern Sportsman lodge for the longest leg.
There are two options and the way to accomplish the Century Ride:
Option 1: Leave at 5:30 AM and ride to Cuba (state line), turn around and come back-total mileage will be 103 for the day
Option 2: Leave at 7:00 AM from the lodge and ride 77 miles, into Selma, Alabama.
All: A local church will host us and feed us. We attend the Slavery and Civil War Museum that evening
May 5th-From Selma we trek into Tuskegee-another long leg along HWY 80. That afternoon volunteers will serve a local family in light home repair and landscaping. When we arrive we will plug in with the volunteers already working. Another local church will house and feed us.
May 6th- The final push will take us into Phenix City/Columbus, Georgia. We will end at the 13th Street bridge.
You will need transportation home from Phenix City.
The registration is simple and easy. Download the form, fill out, and send in with your regsitration of $50. There is an information packet with everything you need. And oh, yea-this is a fundraiser! In the packet you will find a sample letter and pledge sheet. Use these however you need to. Our goal is for each of us to raise $1200-roughly $400/day. You can do it and together with God’s help, we will help End the Cycle of Poverty!
To summarize:
Blackbelt tour is from Livingston to Tuskegee-168 miles
State line to State line Livingston/Cube to Phenix City- 235 miles
Family Challenge Ride Tuskegee to Phenix City- 42 miles (Sunday, 11:15 AM at Tuskegee UMC)