THE CHALLENGE!

This year Against Breast Cancer have teamed up with ANDYSMANCLUB to bring you Ride2Thrive!

Ride 85 miles in the month of June, to support lifesaving research into secondary spread breast cancer and men’s mental health.

Ride2Thrive is your chance to get active whilst supporting your chosen charity. You can get out on the open road or head to the gym. If cycling is not for you, think of anything that makes you “Strive2thrive” instead. You could run, walk, swim or simply just move.

Ride2Thrive is completely free to join. You can split your challenge up into multiple days or take it on in one go. If 85 miles is too much, choose your own distance and use the number 8, 5 or both for inspiration.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED?

1
Pick your charity.
Against Breast Cancer or ANDYSMANCLUB

2
Connect your Strava and share your fundraising page

3
Take to the saddle and start logging your progress towards 85 miles during June. One for each man that dies from breast cancer each year.

RIDE2THRIVE SUPPORTS TWO FANTASTIC CHARITIES

AGAINST BREAST CANCER

Against Breast Cancer funds pioneering research into new treatments, tools for earlier diagnosis and advice to reduce the risk of recurrence and secondary spread.

The ultimate goal of Against Breast Cancer is to stop secondary breast cancer from claiming lives, focusing research on three key areas: prevention, detection and therapies.

Against Breast Cancer fund research teams at several of the UK’s leading academic institutions including Oriel College Oxford and the centre of cancer immunology at the University of Southampton.

Working with expert scientists Against Breast Cancer want to increase the survival rates of all breast cancer patients and ultimately, discover a vaccine against breast cancer.

Ride2Thrive is part of Against Breast Cancer’s Don’t Forget the Men campaign. Raising awareness of the impact breast cancer has on men.

Sign up for Against Breast Cancer

ANDYSMANCLUB

Who are #ANDYSMANCLUB?

ANDYSMANCLUB run peer-to-peer support groups for men aged 18+ going through storms in their lives. Clubs are free to attend with no registration required.

The group was founded after the death by suicide of Andy Roberts. Andy gave no indication to his family that he was suicidal, as a result, his brother-in-law, Luke Ambler, and mother, Elaine Roberts, founded ANDYSMANCLUB in the hope that men who struggled to open up had a safe space to do so.

The groups are available in hundreds of locations nationwide. In the long-term, the charity aims to have a location within 30 minutes travel of any man in the UK.

Sign up for ANDYSMANCLUB

DID YOU KNOW?

77%

Of suicides are male

85

Men die from breast cancer each year

65%

Of men avoid seeking medical help when they are unwell.