The 2017 Dis-Chem Ride for Sight, to be staged in Boksburg, will be a special cycle event in many ways.
It will represent the 10th year of Dis-Chem Pharmacies being the naming sponsor of this prestigious event, now in its 29th year.
The event has raised almost R4 million over the past nine years and this entire amount has and will continue to be donated to the UCT research project dedicated to finding treatments for genetic retinal blinding conditions such as Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), Macular Degeneration (MD) and dozens of other rare and devastating forms of retinal vision loss.
The ride will start and finish at the Boksburg City Stadium, corner Jubilee and Dudley Smith roads, Boksburg South, on Sunday, February 19.
There are numerous benefits for cyclists.
The event has been embraced and is supported by the City of Ekurhuleni, which will lend technical and managerial expertise and infrastructure to the event.
The 116km Dis-Chem Ride for Sight has once again been selected as a seeding event for the 2018 Cape Town Cycle Tour.
Novice cyclists and those not yet confident of participating in the longer ride can enjoy all the buzz of this premier event by riding in the shorter Vita-thion 62km challenge.
Online entries have opened and you can enter on www.cycleevents.co.za or www.dischem.co.za
Entries will close on February 5.
For information regarding the cycle race, contact Retina South Africa on national@retinasa.org.za or phone 011 450 1181 or contact race organiser Claudette Medefindt on 083 306 5262.
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