21st of August, The Ride for the Roses. Or “The ride” as we like to call it. It’s a 100km charity cycling ride to collect money for the cancer foundation. This year we (Bastiaan and I) will participate for the 2nd time and my parents and brother will participate for the first time this year. They will do the 50km. Last year “we” collected over € 400.000,- for the cancer foundation, so quite a lot of money! So joining again this year, was somewhat of a logical thing to do. It’s a little contribution and kind of fascinating to cycle together with over 8000 people.

The most rememberable thing from last year, except the riding in a peloton and Bastiaan breaking away from it with 45km/hour after 95km!, were the people cycling with signs on their back, saying things like: “I survived cancer” or “Thank you for your support”. Kinda makes you think and be quiet for a moment…

Also quite fascinating, but in a rather bad way, were some of the “officials” last year. People from the organization who were standing along the track, guiding everybody in the right direction. Almost all were just doing a great job, so no bad words about them, but there were some that were smoking while doing their job… Maybe not the best thing to do on a charity ride for the cancer foundation… But well, I guess as with most habits, we don’t always are aware of them, I just hope they are this year!

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