SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Arthritis Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Steven Taylor joined riders of The California Coast Classic + Arthritis Challenge Experience offered by Amgen because it rolled out from Fisherman’s Wharf final Saturday. The trip is making its method down Highway 1 at the moment and will conclude September 17 at a Finish Line Celebration in Los Angeles.
Taylor, who started main the Arthritis Foundation eight months in the past, took up highway biking to help the Foundation’s flagship fundraising occasion and present his solidarity with its 250+ riders and volunteers. “The CCC is like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he stated. “I’m so inspired and impressed by this group’s dedication! I just had to experience it myself.”
Now in its 22nd 12 months, the California Coast Classic is a boutique, bucket-list bicycle tour that showcases the surroundings of one of many world’s most fabled coastlines and travels the long-lasting California Highway 1. This 12 months, there are 267 members from 24 U.S. states, Canada, and Great Britain. The group’s 2022 fundraising whole is at the moment $1.06 million, with extra donations anticipated by way of the November 1 finish of the marketing campaign.
Each rider should meet a minimal fundraising aim to take part within the tour, which helps the 60 million Americans and 300,000 youngsters and teenagers with arthritis. The funds enable the Arthritis Foundation to extend high quality of life with advocacy, improved entry to well being care, youngsters’ summer time camps, arthritis conferences, and extra – and to help analysis for higher therapies and a treatment for arthritis. Many CCC riders both have arthritis or are using for a cherished one with the autoimmune illness that impacts one in 4 Americans.
Throughout CCC’s lengthy historical past, presenting sponsor Amgen, one of many world’s preeminent biotechnology corporations, has supplied monetary help for the trip and inspired its workers to take part in it. This 12 months, Team Amgen contains 25 riders from seven states.
Additional companions of the 2022 California Coast Classic Bike Tour are: Champion-Level Partners GO Sleeves, Horizon, Visit Cambria, Cycle Central Coast, DePuy Synthes, and Pfizer and Prestige-Level Partners Safeway Foundation and Setpoint Medical.
More details about the bike tour, together with its detailed itinerary, is offered on the California Coast Classic web site and on this quick video. The self-paced pedaling journey is open to cyclists of all ranges and welcoming of e-bike riders. It is Gran Fondo Guide’s “Best Charity Bike Tour” and has been named certainly one of “The 30 Best Road Biking Trips” by Outside Magazine.
The dates of the 2023 California Coast Classic are September 30 – October 7 and registration is offered at this hyperlink.
About the Arthritis Foundation
The Arthritis Foundation is combating for all individuals who reside with arthritis. As a Champion of Yes, the Arthritis Foundation’s mission is to show the obstacles arthritis causes into alternatives. The Arthritis Foundation champions life-changing options and medical developments, and offers methods for folks to attach, break down limitations in well being care and be part of the battle for a treatment — uniting hearts, minds, and assets to vary the way forward for arthritis. To be part of the battle to treatment arthritis, go to arthritis.org.
About the California Coast Classic Bike Tour
The Arthritis Foundation’s California Coast Classic Bicycle Tour Presented by Amgen, “The Ride of a Lifetime”, is the winner of Gran Fondo Guide’s Best Charity Bike Tour Award. It started in 2001 and is the flagship fundraising bike tour of the Arthritis Foundation, elevating over $1 million {dollars} yearly for assets and analysis to search out higher therapies and a treatment for arthritis. Beginner and skilled cyclists are inspired to hitch the 8-day, fully-supported, 525-mile journey down the coast of California from San Francisco to Los Angeles from September 30 – October 7, 2023 and registration data might be discovered right here. Supporters who can’t come to the in-person tour are invited to hitch the Arthritis Challenge Experience, a choose-your-own journey that connects members to the colourful CCC group. For extra data, go to arthritis.org/californiacoastclassic.
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