Online registrations have opened for one of southeast Queensland’s favourite charity bike rides, the St Andrew’s Private Hospital Ipswich100 on Sunday 26 March 2023.
The ride is a Brisbane West (BW) Lions Club initiative in association with the Ipswich Hospital Foundation, and 2023 will mark the 24th year of the ride in Ipswich and the Scenic Rim region, with cyclists testing their fitness and supporting worthy causes.
BW Lions president, John Williams, said online registrations offered cyclists three routes, from a challenging Imperial 100-mile ride (169km) to 100km and 50 km rides.
“Despite Covid and the resulting reduced rider numbers we have never had to cancel the ride. The 2022 event took total funds raised for local and Lions charities since 2000 to more than $1.3million,” Mr. Willams said.
The ride’s new naming sponsor is St Andrew’s Private Hospital, Ipswich and the event
partner and major beneficiary is Ipswich Hospital Foundation (IHF). Cyclists start and finish at Ipswich’s picturesque University of Southern Qld campus and pass through farming land and bushland of the Scenic Rim with spectacular views to the Great Divide and Cunningham’s Gap.
Visit the Ipswich100.com.au website where detailed information on entry fees, route maps
and rest stop locations may be found.
The Ipswich100 is famed as south-east Queensland’s friendliest, most scenic, and best-catered ride. This year’s ride manager David Clark says, “The emphasis is on rider safety and support with direction signage, course marshals and rest stops staffed by volunteers with free sports drinks, fresh fruit, buns and sunscreen.”
The ride receives strong support from volunteers in Ipswich and the Scenic Rim including the regions supporting Lions Clubs (each receives a share of the funds raised for their own local projects).
Beneficiaries include IHF, Help McIntyre Centre Pony Riding for people with Disabilities at Pinjarra Hills, SES Ipswich and other local Lions Clubs projects and charities.
Participants can register online at: http://www.ipswich100.com.au . Early Bird pricing ends Tuesday, 31 January.
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