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Team Alpha-1 takes to the Cape again, wins Silver Spoke award and raises $60,000 for Alpha-1 research
Team Alpha-1 raised $60,000 for Alpha-1 research and brought home the “Silver Spoke Award” for the third year in a row at the team’s 15th consecutive ALA of Massachusetts Autumn Bike Trek—which everyone on the team calls the “Escape to the Cape.”
TEAM ALPHA-1 shows off the Silver Spoke award. From the left are Joe Reidy, Jonny Reidy, John Walsh, Fred Walsh and Angela McBride, all veterans of the Escape to the Cape bike trek.
The event was held this past weekend, Oct. 1-3, on Cape Cod.
Team Alpha-1 consisted of 42 official riders and 48 volunteer supporters who helped with registration, sweeps, sag teams and medical support.
Participants in this “at-your-own pace” event, some of whom routinely ride with supplemental oxygen bottles carried on their bikes, had their choice of a two-day, 105-mile bike trek or three days and 160 miles along the Cape’s coast from Plymouth to Provincetown at the Cape’s northern tip.
Team Alpha-1 has won the annual “Silver Spoke” award for the largest team participating in the ride each of the three years the award has been offered. This year, riders came from New England, Colorado, Florida and New Jersey.
Sponsors of Team Alpha-1 are CSL Behring and Talecris Biotherapeutics, both of whom sent riders to participate.
