The Breast Workout ever! CITYFITNESS Ride-A-Thon; raising money for a cure

On Saturday 10th November cityfitness clubs across New Zealand will be hosting The ‘Breast’ Ride Ever, Ride-a-thon to raise funds to support the Breast Cancer Research Trust (BCRT). The event will comprise of four consecutive Group Ride classes running from 8.30am – 12.30pm* across eight cities New Zealand wide.

With over 1,100 riders expected, each paying $10 to book a bike for 1 hour, total fundraising efforts should exceed $11,000 with 100% of proceeds going to BCRT.

‘cityfitness is proud to partner once again with BCRT on what is our largest scale event to date to raise money for a cause that is, unfortunately, so close to home for many of our members and their families’ says cityfitness Director of Group Fitness Allyson Donnelly. ‘we see the power of health and fitness every day inside our clubs and events such as this one illustrate how this power can manifest itself in the communities around our clubs as well.’

Larger scale events will be happening in Auckland, Wellington and Nelson with cityfitness taking the bikes out in to public spaces to help raise the profile of the event and the cause. Ride-a-Thon events will take place at the top of Trafalgar Street in Nelson, Civic Square in Wellington and on Broadway in Newmarket.

Deputy Chair of the Breast Cancer Research Trust, Tony Moffatt, comments, “This is the third consecutive year that a large scale event has been held by cityfitness to raise money for a very worthy cause – raising over $25,000 from the last two years. And this year will only increase fundraising with an added outdoor event in the three main centres. As our goal of finding a cure for breast cancer by 2018 gets closer it’s fundraising like this that will get us there.”

The ‘Breast Ride Ever’ is open to both cityfitness members and non-members.

Participating cityfitness locations are:

>> Hamilton >> Masterton >> Napier >> Nelson >> Newmarket >> Palmerston North >> Wellington >> Christchurch