LifeCycle at Mdina static displays

LifeCycle is leaving no stone unturned to improve its highly successful charitable event - an annual cycling challenge in aid of patients suffering from end-stage renal failure.

This year, it aims to bring the team closer to the public by enhancing its Sunday team training with static displays using spinning bikes.

Tomorrow, the team will be outside Mdina Gate from 9 a.m. after an intensive time trial.

Interested parties are invited to join the team with their families and help support LifeCycle's cause to collect funds and raise awareness on end-stage renal failure.

The team did two similar displays at Valletta Waterfront and Mdina last year.

The support team accompanying the cyclists on their arduous trip from Bucharest to Berlin will tomorrow be meeting groups of cyclists to discuss sport nutrition, logistics and over-use injuries.

"We feel that over the past nine years we have not quite got the message across that this challenge needs as much mental as it does physical preparation", event organiser Alan Curry said.

"The static displays allow us to bond closer as a team and for all of us to share our own personal experiences about what we can call 'the ride of rides'."

Parties who would like to meet LifeCycle participants can join the team outside Mdina Gate. Alternatively they can visit the organisation's website.

Over the past years, in conjunction with other entities such as the Transplant Support Group, LifeCycle has persuaded more than a 1,000 people to become organ donors.

www.lifecyclechallenge.com