{"id":4887,"date":"2018-04-26T20:37:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/the-armed-forces-cycling-classic\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T20:37:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:37:17","slug":"the-armed-forces-cycling-classic","status":"publish","type":"member_news","link":"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/the-armed-forces-cycling-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armed Forces Cycling Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tThe 2018 Armed Forces Cycling Classic will again offer companies the opportunity to invite their cycling enthusiasts to participate in the Corporate Challenge. This event, offers each Corporate Challenge Team a number of ways to step-up to the Challenge. Each participating team will also be assigned a 10&#39;x10&#39; Feed Zone &#8216;Chalet&#8217; in the Corporate Challenge Team area. Teams will be encouraged to invite friends and fans out to this area. This area can be used to re-supply riders with water and food during the event. Registration is based on the number of riders. There is a $1000 minimum team\/corporation pledge, in addition to the registration fees. The top three fundraising teams will be recognized on the main stage following the conclusion of the ride.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Corporate Challenge will cap off this year at around 3,000 riders on Sunday, June 10th.&nbsp;&nbsp; Last year there were over 1,600 riders with nearly 30 teams participating.&nbsp; This year, the teams will be supporting the beneficiary of their choice &ndash; all associated with the military.&nbsp;&nbsp; Three beneficiaries have been chosen by an Advisory Committee and include:&nbsp; <a href='http:\/\/ourmilitarykids.org\/'>Our Millitary Kids<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/https:\/\/www.taps.org\/'>TAPS<\/a> and&nbsp; <a href='http:\/\/webdc.alsa.org'>ALS<\/a>.&nbsp; The route is approximately 10km (6.5 miles) in and around the Pentagon, Crystal City and Rosslyn, closed to traffic. Participants complete as many laps as they can, for up to 3 hours, either as a Standard Registrant or as part of the Thales Corporate Challenge Team. The start is at 7 am, however riders do not have to start at 7am, as they can check in up to 8am &#8211; it just all depends on how many laps participants want to complete by 10am.&nbsp; The major competition is for the most laps by the teams&rsquo; top six riders of a team to complete the course.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align: center;'>\t<a href='http:\/\/cyclingclassic.org\/index.html'><strong>MORE INFORMATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 Armed Forces Cycling Classic will again offer companies the opportunity to invite their cycling enthusiasts to participate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4888,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4887","member_news","type-member_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Armed Forces Cycling Classic - 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