Thanks to each an everyone of you for encouraging me...I'm almost there, while YOU stepped up to the plate, hitting a home run for the Great Cycle Challenge team...putting us over the $3,000 goal. Congrats and again: Thank YOU.
STATS for 2024 GCC as of 10-4-24
• Your collective miles ridden would lap the circumference of the earth 80 times!
• Over 97,256 donations have been made to fight kids' cancer!
• 107 riders pedaled over 1,000 miles for their challenge.
• 37 riders raised over $10,000 to fight kids' cancer, becoming GCC All-Stars.
• 1,701 participants have survived their own personal fight against cancer.
• 138,687 individual rides were completed throughout September.
• The average donation made to sponsor a rider was $89.
• Once again, Guillermo Pous was our #1 fundraiser across the country, riding 1,007 miles and raising a mind-boggling $69,458! This stunning effort for our kids takes his all-time total raised over 8 years in the challenge to $294,655. He is a cancer-fighting phenomenon.
• Our Facebook group GCC Friends USA gained 1,311 members. Group members have shared 5,758 posts and left 82,459 comments and reactions!
• 15 kids under 5 years old took on the challenge to kick cancer's butt for other kids.
• Brooke Verges rode 162 miles and raised $4,002 to kick cancer's butt. She fought melanoma after being diagnosed at just 6 years old. Brooke is now cancer-free (WOOHOO) and living a happy life, and wants the same outcome for ALL kids diagnosed with cancer.
• We've received countless messages from families affected by cancer thanking you for your fantastic efforts.
• 2,056 riders raised $1,000+ and became members of the Peloton Club.
• Riders from Delaware raised an average of $650 - the highest in the country.
• This GCC community rallied on Facebook, liking, commenting, messaging and sharing our posts 1,020,235 times.
• Crystal Dunnings, a 9-year legacy rider, rode 400 miles and raised $6,383 for family and friends affected by cancer. She rides year-on-year to "keep others from losing their loved ones to this horrible disease."
• Steve Link rode 651 miles and raised $11,505 to fight kids' cancer, making him the #1 fundraiser among our first-year riders = EPIC stuff. He rides for his 26-year-old son and his mom, who are both battling cancer.
• Together, we've been in the saddle for the equivalent of 367,611 days, 6 hours, and 28 minutes.
• Over the 10 years of GCC, we've ridden 33,471,564 miles and raised $79,884,352 to fight kids' cancer!
A bonus today: I took a "left" from my last ride north towards Ogunquit from York, ME and found FLO'S, a 65 year old hot dog stand (see pic) run by an "old" couple. Cash only, and 11-3 only, and Thurs to Sunday only. It's WORTH it. $4 for the best hot dog ever (very special home-made relish). Only in Maine.
