All Girls Iron Butt Run For Breast Cancer

Thursday, 27 August 2009 13:46

What are you doing Labor Day weekend? Going to the beach? Cooking out?

The Ribbon Riders are riding on Labor Day Weekend. In fact, they're putting our butts on the line. Literally.

Five women motorcyclists – yes, women - are saddling up to ride 1,000 miles in less than 24 hours. Covering that much ground in that short of a time is called an “Iron Butt” ride. Members of the Iron Butt Association are called the world’s toughest riders. So why are they doing an Iron Butt? If you have to be tough to do an Iron Butt endurance ride, you have to be even tougher to battle breast cancer.

These five women are members of the Ribbon Riders - a women’s motorcycle organization in central Florida. Ribbon Riders raise money to help breast cancer patients in central Florida with the immediate costs of breast cancer treatment – medicine, co-pays, insurance premiums, transportation, even groceries.

So Carmen, Karen, Lynne, Pam, and Stacey are headed to Myrtle Beach. And back to Orlando. The same day. On motorcycles. They will start before dawn and finish the 1,000 miles well before midnight. Their goal is to raise $1000 and they are doing it one dollar at a time.

To find out more about Ribbon Riders or to donate to their ride, please visit www.ribbonriders.org.