St. Jude, Life Time To Host 3rd Annual Ride For A Reason Event At Life Time Destinations Nationwide On Saturday, March 3
Posted: February 23, 2018 in Chains
Life Time – The Healthy Way Of Life Company
CHANHASSEN, MN – As part of ongoing efforts by St. Jude and Life Time to help kids get healthy, more than 100 Life Time destinations across the country will host the third annual Ride for a Reason event on Saturday, March 3. The four-hour cycling relay will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Life Time Foundation. This year more than 7,000 participants and 1,200 teams are expected to participate with a fundraising goal of $1 million.
Events like Ride for a Reason help ensure 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.
No one better understands how a diagnosis can alter one’s life than Jamie, mother of a St. Jude patient. Within one year, Jamie went from being a Life Time cycle instructor, leading one of the top fundraising clubs in the nation, to experiencing the St. Jude mission firsthand when her six-year-old daughter Bridget, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma.
Now that Bridget is a St. Jude patient, Jamie is even more determined to continue raising funds for St. Jude. So far, her Ride for a Reason team has raised more than $24,000. “The money we’re raising is helping so many children, including now my own daughter,” says Jamie.
Since the first Ride for a Reason in 2016, nearly 10,000 riders have raised $1.2 million. The treatments for pediatric cancer can last up to three years or more and cost on average $425,000 including housing, travel and food. That is why every donation counts and why participants are encouraged to raise $250 or more.
