REGISTRATION of entrants for this year’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport/Ministry of Health fifth annual ‘Ride for Life’ five-stage cycle road race will close on Monday.

According to a press release sent by national cycling coach Hassan Mohamed, cyclists interested in competing in this year’s event which will pedal off next Thursday morning, are asked to make their registration known through him at his Middle Street office.
This event has become a marquee one on the local cycling calendar and sees cyclists from Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Martinique and the United States of America, lock horns with this country’s top junior and senior competitors.
It covers a distance of 266 miles (430km) and carries an attractive first prize of US$1 000, which was first won by Roraima Bikers Club’s Alonso Greaves in 2008.
Those cyclists, who will be competing in this year’s event, are also reminded that transportation will leave the MCYS’ Main Street office at 1230hrs next Wednesday.
The first stage will pedal off from the Corriverton Police Station at 0730hrs and proceed to Main and Alexander Streets in New Amsterdam next Thursday morning covering a distance of 46.6 miles (75km), while the second stage takes place from 14:00hrs on the same day from the Rosignol Stelling to Carifesta Avenue, a distance of 60.4 miles (96km).
The following morning from 09:00hrs, those cyclists who are still in the event, will do battle in the third stage which takes them from Wales Police Station to Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo, a distance of 35 miles (56km).
The fourth stage will be competed in the Cinderella County of Essequibo, where the cyclists will pedal off from Supenaam Stelling at 0730hrs next Saturday morning and journey to Charity before returning to Suddie for the finish, completing a distance of 67 miles (107.5km).
The event will climax on October 14, with the remaining riders making their way from Kara Kara on the Linden/Siesdyke Highway to Homestretch Avenue in Georgetown, covering a distance of 64.6 miles (103.3km) in the process, following which the presentation of prizes will be done.