The Tour 2023

Thanks for all the comments coming in about the Tour so far and it is so great that we still have so much enthusiasm around the Tour!

I realise a lot of you may not know much about me so here is some background and intro. I rode my first tour in 2016 leading our community in a Sufferlandrian Embassy in Leeds. I joined The Sufferfest after that in 2017 as customer service minion. Since then I have been a Sufferlandrian and Wahooligan riding the Tour each year and I have been race director for the tour of Sufferlandria for the past 2 years.

Being race director has been so motivating to work more closely with the Davis Phinney Foundation and see just how much the Tour benefits them and their programmes for people living with Parkinsons. On top of being race director, I am the operations manager for the Sports Science team based in Boulder so have the honor of working with sir @Coach.Neal.H (Guru of all things Sports Science and master of Suffering) on a daily basis!

I know we have a lot of experienced Knights, Sufferlandrians and Wahooligans in this community and we are all excited to ride the Tour again for our own training as well as supporting the Davis Phinney Foundation. I look forward to sharing more information about this with you in January when the registration opens and we can announce the route and other news. I appreciate at this stage saying “the Tour is coming” does not provide much insight but we wanted to make you aware of the dates. Sorry these do not work for all of you but you can still ride the tour a different week and do your bit for the Davis Phinney Foundation.

As we know, a few years ago, the Sufferfest became part of the Wahoo family and as a result of this, evolution and adaptation is natural and we look for ways to get more and more people into the Tour and raising as much as we can for the Davis Phinney Foundation. With that in mind, I ask that you keep your minds open as we head towards the start line of the 2023 Tour.

Happy Holidays to all :goat:


Tour of Sufferlandria 2016, Leeds

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