IN a feat comparable to the inspirational Prudential Ride London-Surrey100-mile cycle ride by 25,000 cyclists and the famous London to Paris Cycle Ride, professional cyclists from the Life Style Cycling Club, Port Harcourt, are set to ride through a mapped out route in Lagos.
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The event, tagged the "October 2013 Pink Ride" holds on the 12th of October 2013 from 8:00am – 2:00pm and will be flagged off by Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dame Abimbola Fashola.
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The mapped out route which comprises Ikeja Oshodi- Festac- Surulere- Victoria Island- Lekki- Ikoyi- Marina-3rd Mainland Bridge- Ikeja, is brain child of the Pink Pearl Foundation, a public service charity organisation, as part of activities to mark October as World Breast cancer awareness month. An estimated 20,000 breast cancer cases are recorded in Nigeria annually.
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With evidence that exercising regularly reduces the risk of breast cancer, there have been attempts at encouraging the habit over the years.
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Essentially, riding a bicycle is a form of exercise withnumerous other health benefits as well, such as releasing stress, increasing balance, endurance, and stability, burns calories, and increases cardiovascular fitness (good heart condition); amongst many others.