YES it’s happening! After extensive planning and negotiation The Ryloride Executive Committee is happy to announce the details of Ryloride 5–The Anniversary Edition! Oh the fans are so happy!
The Committee really wanted to make RR5 special (aren’t they all?) so we formed multiple subcommittees to research a myriad of options and after hundreds of hours of work we finally settled on a plan….wait, not yet….the question that we kept struggling with was how we could make RR5 impactful to a greater number of people? How could we give back to the community while enjoying the ride? What the heck could we do that would be super cool and just all around great but also take the ride to the next level??? Many ideas were floated but in the end we kept coming back to what Bill Walton said to me last year when he was participating in day 2 of RR4–The Allstar Edition:
“Rylo my good friend why don’t you merge RR5 with the CAF MDC? As we ALL know, The Ryles Institute preaches inclusion-acceptance–love–understanding- goodness etc so I think it is a perfect solution to all of our needs–we get the fantastic adventures of a Ryloride and you can raise a slug of money for the CAF which is a FANTASTIC charity that helps an amazing number of wonderful people. It would be righteous, Dude, so lets get it done!” Hold on let me wipe the tears…well Bill can be very convincing and he made some outstanding points so it is with GREAT pleasure that I officially announce that Ryolride 5 has indeed merged with The CAF MDC!
WHAT? HOW? IS THIS EVEN LEGAL? HOW WILL IT WORK?
I know I know there are SO many questions out there which will all be answered on the blog in good time but for now I will highlight the main points and get to the rest during the actual ride. Now some of you may be wondering–are they really going to ride 650 miles in 7 days? Didn’t Rylo nearly ride himself to death on RR1 (MDC 2014)? Didn’t Rylo lose 98% of his skin below the waist and above the knees? Oh man don’t remind me….so in order-no/yes/yes! Due to our schedules we were unable to commit to the entire MDC and the training required so we worked with the CAF and agreed to have RR5 join the MDC in LA and ride the last 2 days from LA to SD!
This enables us to do the ride we love while pairing our efforts with a wonderful and deserving charity and allows us to spend some quality time with a wonderful group of people that is truly inspiring–WINNING! So YES RR5 has a LARGE charity component to it and we hope all our friends support our efforts and the CAF because we both deserve it danget and would be super appreciative and its ALWAYS good to have team Ryloride on your side.
I have a TON more to say including WHO will be doing RR5? When is RR5? Is Tierney coming on RR5? What about Rob Rowe? Nathan? Bobby? Maust? The Dom? Shred? etc etc etc. All in good time but for now all I will say is that Team Rylo is a smaller group of High Performing Altheletes this year BUT our hearts are as big as ever–like AFTER the Grinch got his big heart–and we have the FULL support of prior RR participants who weren’t able to make this years rides so its ALL GOOD! I must go plan the event BUT the blog is officially up and running for RR5 so please keep checking it as more frequent posts are coming as the event is LESS than 2 weeks away!
Before I sign off I will take a few questions from the fans:
“Hey Rylo its me Tierney do people have to donate to read the blog?” HELLO Tierney my outstanding/good looking/studly and GENEROUS friend (Yes TT is a GOLD sponsor of RR5 which means we love him with our whole hearts and will ONLY say good things about him henceforth)! Although the answer to this question is NO we would still love as many of you as possible to support our efforts as we have some skin in the game (get it) and would LOVE your support. But, if you have already spent your charity dollars elsewhere or just dont like me then no you dont have to contribute and should feel to read and enjoy the blog as giving is NOT mandatory it is just greatly appreciated by team Rylo and the CAF.
With that said I will sign off BUT I will include the link to my fundraising page which I sincerely hope you will visit because the CAF is a fantastic charity and if I just bring more awareness to their efforts (along with some money!) then I will feel good about it all and Rylo deserves to feel good, right? Ok, here is a HINT of who is going to be on RR5…
Sincerely,
Rylo.
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