The 2010 edition of IMBA’s International Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day event (held on Oct. 2 for most locations) was an enormous success, with more than 21,000 participants joining the fun according to estimates from event organizers. The ride, which is held annually on the first Saturday of October, attracted about 7,000 kids and adults last year. “This year, we offered an online event map and a streamlined registration process,” explains IMBA Executive Director Mike Van Abel. “But what drives our success is that it’s such a blast to ride trails with young people. Our clubs know that better than anyone and they’ve gone gangbusters promoting their events.”
The registered events ranged from the modest — about 10 kids and 20 adults were expected at Georgia’s Sope Creek National Park ride — to the extravagant … Details
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution – On a crisp October morning nine courageous volunteers rose to the challenge of pushing a two tonne lifeboat nine miles through the streets of London to help raise funds for a new lifeboat on the Thames for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
Saturday 9 October 2010 saw the nine man Charles Russell LLP team giving the ‘boat push’ everything they had in order to complete the nine mile course from the RNLI’s Tower Lifeboat Station to Chiswick Lifeboat Station. The team managed to complete the challenge in under three and a half hours, raising a fantastic sum of £7,340 in the process with yet more pledges still being received … Details
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Approvals have been granted for the WAKSA Charity Downwinder 2010, again in support of Redkite – supporting children through the cancer journey.
Following last year’s format, the downwinder will again commence at Leighton and finish at Brighton.
For those not comfortable with that distance, a shorter downwinder will start at … Details
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Did he do it? Is Conan Gay bound for the Guinness Book of World Records?
Not quite, the Eugene skateboarder reported Saturday.
Gay was hoping to make it into the record book for the longest distance covered by skateboard in 24 hours. The current record is 242 miles. He skated  … Details
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