Solo rider Arvid Loewen leaves White Rock July 17; pursuit riders start July 18
For release July 15, 2010
Arvid Loewen opens the race on July 17 at 7:00 am, with Team CMU leaving 24 hours later and Team WP leaving 27 hours later. The solo and team riders will cover 2330 kilometres in a round-the-clock race back to Winnipeg.
The two Winnipeg pursuit teams will attempt to overtake Arvid Loewen, who is racing for the Mully Children’s Foundation. CMU’s team of five cyclists, made up of faculty members Chris Huebner and John Brubacher, along with Kevin Kilbrei, and alumni Craig Penner and Jon Guenter, will race from Vancouver to Winnipeg to raise money for international student financial support. Team Winnipeg Police are raising funds for The Children’s Wish Foundation. Riders anticipate arriving at Manitoba’s legislative grounds on Wednesday evening, July 21.
Team GoGo joins the race at Calgary. Shirley Polson, 80 years of age, and four of her “granny” friends will leave Calgary as a relay team on July 18 at 8:00 am. They expect to be in Winnipeg in advance of the other teams, waiting at the finish line for the riders. They have named their team the “Gogos” after the Kenyan word for “grandmother.”
“Arvid has incredible endurance and can cycle 20 hours a day,” says Team CMU’s Chris Huebner. “We are not in his league, but we will be working as a team, cycling day and night, trying to catch him.”
Located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, CMU has over 1,800 students at its Shaftesbury Campus in Southwest Winnipeg, at Menno Simons College in downtown Winnipeg, and enrolled through its Outtatown discipleship program. CMU is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).
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