Most of us get plenty outdoors time anyway, but many end up couped up indoors in these lovely months (and beyond). I really feel thats not good for the mental health and hopefully this might be one rose to combat it...Basically for the past few years I've somehow managed to ride the Rapha500 for charity. But I've always done it with a slight variation and called it Ride313... or Solo313... That makes it just 2.3 more miles longer than the 500km of the Rapha500.
This year Crikey, how much have decided to make the ride open to indoor-ers. Which is all well and good but IMO it's the great outdoors that, somewhat, helps the brain 'satisfy' and (again IMO) is much better for the heart than indoor exercise. Especially playstation style
(sorry).So I've decided to run the 313 - that I usually attempt simultaneously with the Rapha500 - as a seperate entity. This year I'll not attempt to complete it for charity (cos I'm tired and it's probably not socially appropriate/acceptable to tramp out of my cage for a ride). I still want to keep that Rapha500 outdoor theme going though as well as get the benefit of assisting to raise some dosh for charity.
I've put my blueprint out there on a cycling club I'm on but I doubt there'll be much uptake (don't think I can afford the woven badge that Rapha500 used to draw in the crowds with and my postcard idea might not appeal as much).
So here I am, putting the ride out to a wider platform and where someone might actually bother to go attempt it. Here's the deal...
Between 5th and 15th Jan, ride 313 outdoor miles. Donate £25 into a charity cause - of a most needy type thing (I'm gonna be giving mine to the Yemen Hunger crisis as there's never been such devastatingly dire hunger levels in history), maybe your local homeless charity, Mtn Rescue, Macmillan... whatever - then go out and ride.
The prize (other than the satisfaction of having helped charity and frozen yourself half to death and survived)... Well I'm still working on some sort of fridge magnet with a nice pic, verse of the Quran and the Winter313 logo. But don't hold your breath. So what I'll be dping for anyone that completes on here is sending you a copy of the english translation (yet to be bought) of The Quran. Not sure if that's any enticement...
Thanks for listening (and don't tell Macron)...
NB: If you wished to complete it but not get the prize, that's absolutely fine and I'll still be chuffed
(don't have a telly, nor radio in car, just caught up with AlJazeera English Live with whom I find there's less 'baggage' to sift through...).