Cycleathon Comic Relief 18/03

On Friday 18th March, The 1000 Miles Cycling Relay Challenge takes place; it’s the GMS Comic Relief challenge for 2020. Comic Relief is always a big day in the school’s calendar and this year PE is leading this new cycling challenge. The 1000 miles is mirroring the Tour De Suisse, which usually takes 9 days.

The aim of the day is to achieve the following.

• 12 student bikes will be peddled continuously around the field for 8 hours, or until we hit 1000 miles. One lap is 800m, so 2000 laps have to be cycled.
• Students are to work together to ensure a continuous relay.

Exciting progress so far is as follows.

• 250 students have signed up.
• There are 50 students per session.
• There are 12 teams per 50 (3-4 cyclists)
• Youth Sport Award students, who are running the event are pleased with the progress being made.
• Saddle Safari has serviced the bikes ahead of the event and GMS are hugely grateful to them.

Payment

• Parent Pay has given us a direct link for any donations/sponsorship raised for Red Nose Day

https://app.parentpay.com/ParentPayShop/Foc/Default.aspx?shopid=7436

• The money donated is paid directly to the Comic Relief Red Nose Day bank account, those donating have the option to add Gift Aid to their payment.

On the day.

• Bucks Free Press is covering the event.
• Students will know when they’ve geographically hit significant points of the tour.
• Students will be using maths, when counting down the mileage and looking at average speeds.
• A festive atmosphere will be achieved through up-beat music playing throughout.
• All students are invited back at 3 pm to help finish off the mileage required.
• 4 x staff bikes will be used throughout the day to help with the mileage.

After the event.

• Data will be used post-event by the Maths Department.