Welcome to a new board,
* created to help riders, crew and supporters of
The Race Against Time.
TRAT is the only high speed, fully-supported LEJOG in the calendar. In six days, a team of amateur racers travel the 874 mile long route made famous by time triallists and tourists alike, averaging 150 miles in each ten hour day. The ride supports the
Bishop Simeon Trust's work fighting HIV/AIDS in South Africa and symbolises the race against time to help an ever increasing number of people whose lives are affected by this disease.
I completed TRAT in the summer of 2008 and with the help of the good people of YACF, raised an awful lot of money for this amazing cause. On the 21st June 2009, another team of riders will be leaving Land's End with the same ambitious goal of reaching John O'Groats in six days. I'm honoured to have been asked to be their Race Director and I shall be doing everything I can to help advise and support them during their training and then look after their every need on the ride itself.
This board is intended as a place where our riders can come to meet up online ahead of training rides, to ask for help, to get support and advice. It's also going to be a place where the support team and staffers from the BST can have online discussions about the ride. Finally, I'm hoping that YACF will continue to support TRAT - both through giving their expertise, time and maybe some cash.
* Before anyone accuses me of abusing my admin superpowers, I'd just like to say that this is a DIY board that just happens to be managed by an admin. If it fails to attract enough traffic, I'll merge it back into the rest of YACF as I would with any DIY board...