So after a year of training and fundraising the
1000 K's 4 Kids Bike Ride starts tomorrow.
The Support Crew drove from Maitland to Benalla on Wednesday and spent
an awesome night together.
We were up bright and early this morning to get all
the support cars ready, packing the Ark, washing cars and then cooking lunch
for when the riders got here.
At 1.00 pm the bus pulled up and the riders jumped
out all excited about getting started. They settled in, ate lunch and we then
all walked up to the Benalla Bowling Club for a Team Challenge of indoor
bowls. It was so much fun and you would
have thought they were playing for a house - the stakes were high !!!! After a tense grand final the winner of the
bragging rights was Team Subtilis Engineering.
Following this we all went into the dining room for
a briefing and lovely meal.
It was then time for presentation of Special
Jerseys, advising the current winner of the Team Challenge and Fines !!
The current winner of the Team Challenge is Team
Subtilis Engineering – a great start !
Jersey winners were:
King of the Mountains Jersey went to Paul “Hair”
Brownlee for not only getting the Platinum Sponsor onboard (The Manshake) for
$30,000.0 but for not giving up there and still fundraising another $5,000.00
The Joker Jersey went to Shane “Warney” Nilsson for
bringing his bike on a training ride with one wheel missing !
The Most Supportive Jersey went to Simon “Nugget”
Morris for arranging training rides, being a first time Captain, constantly
asking King if he can help with anything, etc.
The Support Crew Joker Jersey went to Roy “Ben”
Dorahy for walking straight past the pub where everyone was having dinner and kept
going another 15 minutes up the road to the next pub and then ringing to ask
where everyone was.
The Support Crew Most Supportive Jersey went to
Massage Sara who not only raised her required amount for fundraising but then took
up three other sponsorships and asked that they be given to riders who needed
them.
Big G, our Fine Master then stood up to hand out
the day’s fines – this is always a fun part of the night and everyone got their
coins out ready. Fines tonight were
handed out to:
Ged – for looking like 50cent
Nick Curtis – because it was his birthday
Housie - just because
Brian – who went to the women's toilet instead of
the mens
Ged – for telling Donna that if she wanted to get
any of his Team to do jobs for her, she needed to check with him !
A double fine went to Nugget for being on the phone
and for wearing a Hardcore Hat when we are not on Hardcore.
After lots of laughs, the night drew to an end and everyone
then started heading back to our accommodation to get a good night sleep before
the big start tomorrow.
A massive Thank You to Quarry Mining who sponsored tonight's Team Challenge Event and our Dinner.
Please remember to send through Messages of Support
or emails to donna.george@campquality.org.au so we can read them out to everyone at night.
Until tomorrow,
Donna. x
