More than 90 Life Time Fitness Locations to Host Indoor Cycling Events to Support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Posted: April 13, 2016 in Chains
Life Time – The Healthy Way Of Life Company
CHANHASSEN, MN – This year, approximately 176,000 cases of childhood cancer worldwide will be diagnosed in children 14 and younger. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened its doors more than 50 years ago. As St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continues to drive the overall childhood cancer survival rate to 90%, Life Time – The Healthy Way of Life Company is joining their efforts.
On May 1, more than 90 Life Time Fitness and Life Time Athletic destinations nationwide will host the first-ever “Ride for a Reason” fundraising event, open to both members and non-members of Life Time. All proceeds from the event will benefit St. Jude as it is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. In addition, a portion also will go to the Life Time Foundation, a public charity committed to improving children’s nutrition by improving school meals.
This event welcomes all ages and abilities of individuals to be a part of this important cause – from avid cyclists to those who’ve never tried indoor cycling before.
How It Works:
- “Ride for a Reason” is a one-day event that will consist of a four hour indoor cycling ride with teams of up to four riding in alternation for four hours.
- Participants will be asked to fundraise a minimum of $1,000 to secure a bike. Individual riders must commit to raise a minimum of $250 for each hour they commit to riding.
- Each team will be given their own fundraising website after registering for the event that consists of tools to help measure progress, increase fundraising, coaching emails and personalized fundraising pages to motivate donors.
Reasons to Ride:
- All proceeds from the event will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, as well as the Life Time Foundation.
- Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
- Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancer from 20 to 80 percent. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent, and will not stop until no child dies from cancer.
- St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.
- St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states. The Life Time Foundation is currently working with more than 300 schools nationwide.
- The Life Time Foundation is committed to improving children’s nutrition through education and the elimination of highly processed and unnatural ingredients from school menus.
Visit www.lifetimeride.stjude.org for more information.
