Ride of a Life Time Cycling Event Aims to Raise One Million Dollars to Improve Children’s Health
Posted: March 30, 2022 in Chains
Life Time – The Healthy Way Of Life Company
CHANHASSEN, MN – So many aspects of our lives have been adversely impacted over the last two years, including the physical and nutritional health of our children. To help improve this, Life Time, one the nation’s premier healthy lifestyle brands (NYSE: LTH), is inviting everyone to raise money for local children’s hospitals and schools during its annual Ride of a Life Time charity cycle event on Saturday, April 30th.
Ride of a Life Time will benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and the Life Time Foundation, two dedicated organizations that support hospitals caring for kids in need and collaborate with school food leaders to help them serve wholesome, nourishing, minimally processed foods in schools across the country, respectively. Life Time has set a $1 million fundraising goal for the second annual event after raising more than $640,000 during the inaugural event last fall.
“Ride of a Life Time allows our members to make a positive impact in helping kids to live healthy, happy lives,” Life Time President and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Zwiefel says. “Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and the Life Time Foundation have missions to support the health of children in our communities, and we’re pleased to host this event once again for these tremendous causes.”
Participants may choose from one of two ways to ride and help children and schools across the nation provide healthy, nutritious meals:
- Ride at Life Time: Nearly 150 Life Time athletic country clubs across the country will host rides in their premier indoor cycle studios. Riders can choose to ride for one to four hours as this in-person event featuring Life Time’s popular AMP, EDG and PWR indoor cycle signature formats.
- Ride Virtually: Ride at home or wherever you are virtually with livestreamed cycle classes the morning of the event.
There is no registration fee for Ride of a Life Time. Every participant is asked to raise a minimum of $250 for the causes and all proceeds will be equally split among the two charities.
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals provide the treatments and cures kids need today from illness and disease so that they can fulfill their potential. Donations are even more crucial now, with 89% of its member hospitals reporting recent staffing shortages due to the impact of the pandemic.
Donations will help kids in local communities like Jorden, who nearly died after contracting a rare, but serious condition associated with COVID-19. Jorden needed to be placed on a ventilator at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Westchester County, New York. After several treatments and procedures during his 28-day stay at the hospital, Jorden was able to breathe on his own and has recovered.
“Now more than ever, philanthropy is crucial to ensure children’s hospitals are supported so that kids continue to receive the best care possible – no matter life’s circumstances,” said Teri Nestel, President and CEO of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. “We’re grateful for partners like Life Time and the Life Time Foundation who share our vision to change kids’ health to change the future – for all of us.”
The Life Time Foundation works with schools to ensure the nutrition provided through their meals is the best it can be so every child can grow up happy, strong and healthy. For some children, these meals may be the only they receive on a daily basis. The Life Time Foundation partners with 35 school districts, which impacts 3,634 schools and 264 million healthy meals served to 1.7 million students each year.
Registration is open now on the Life Time Digital Membership, or at www.rideofalifetime.life.
