AIDS Ride for Life for the Southern Tier AIDS Program
AIDS Ride for Life for the Southern Tier AIDS Program
About AIDS Ride for Life
Happy Ride Week!
Packet Pickup is Friday, September 6th at the Stewart Park Large Pavilion from 4-7pm
Ride Day begins at 6am on Saturday, September 7th at the Stewart Park Large Pavilion for 91 & 102 milers!
ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSES ON THURSDAY 9/5 @ 11:59PM
ONLINE SAFETY QUIZ CLOSES ON THURSDAY 9/5 @ 11:59PM
91-103 mile riders may still register to Ride at Packet Pickup (4-7pm) or Ride Morning (please get in by 6:15am to register). The safety quiz will be available as a paper quiz (all riders are required to take this annually to ride).
WEATHER: Think positive thoughts but come prepared with rain gear!
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS FOR STEWART PARK:
The Park has asked us to make sure our event participants keep off of the grass at Stewart Park. Please park in spaces closest to the Large Pavilion, once these fill up you may have to park further into Stewart Park. See map below (blue highlights are parking areas):
*We WILL have a shuttle bus that can take riders back to Stewart from Cass Park, it will run from 3-5:30 every 30 minutes! Riders may also utilize the Cayuga Waterfront Trail to travel from Cass to Stewart Park.
See you Friday & Saturday!
The AIDS Ride for Life is the Southern Tier AIDS Program's biggest fundraiser of the year!
About the Ride
Cyclists from all over gather at Stewart Park in Ithaca NY to Ride around Cayuga Lake while fully supported by a contingent of volunteers at the seven pitstops placed strategically around the lake. Riders will also be assisted by vehicle safety and gear support (cars and motorcycles), bike repair techs, a lunch pitstop at the halfway point, and a great celebration to follow at the finish line! You can also register for smaller routes instead of the 90 or 100 miles around the lake, we have smaller options ranging between 14 to 42 miles that begin at specific pitstops and require a short bus ride from Stewart Park.
Registering for the Ride starts at $30 when registration opens on April 1st, 2024 and will periodically increase as the event gets closer, this fee goes towards Rider amenities and event costs. Additionally, we ask all riders to fundraise $100 in order to participate on Ride day; all money raised by our Riders goes back to STAP to fill the gaps in the funding required to serve folks living with HIV/AIDS, others with two or more chronic illnesses, people who are LGBTQ+ Youth at Identity Youth Center, or Syringe Exchange participants. All registered riders will get their own fundraising page as well as some tools to help them fundraise including the ability to create their own fundraising events, the ability to text their donors thank you, livestream fundraising, and more!
Our volunteer form is now open! CLICK HERE for more information or see the link below:
https://p2p.onecause.com/arfl/page/volunteer
The 2024* Route
*Due to the chaotic nature of road work, the route is subject to change at any point up to Ride morning!
(picture from Strava)
RWGPS: (Ride with GPS)
Century Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/46231082
91 Mile Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/47522821
Strava:
Century Route: https://www.strava.com/routes/3246584664062722414
About Registration
Registration is a crucial aspect of the Ride. Along with sponsorship money, it helps cover the costs of the entire event so that all funds raised can go to STAP and its services. These costs include pit stop food, water, lunch, dinner, rental fees for tables, chairs, and tents, rider T-shirts, rider gifts, toilets for each pit stop, bib numbers, medical supplies, and more.
Register to Ride with Us! Registration schedule is below
$30.00 April 1st - May 31st 2024
$40.00 June 1st - August 8th, 2024
$50.00 August 9th - September 7th 2024
The 2024 ARFL Jersey
*Orders are closed for production*
Date
Starts at: September 7, 2024 5:00 AM
Ends at: September 7, 2024 5:00 PM
Location
Stewart Park
1 James L Gibbs Drive
Ithaca,NY 14850 USA
Contact
Kayla Thomas, Ride Coordinator
607-205-5116
kthomas@stapinc.org
Why Participate?
26 Years supporting one of the Southern Tier's most vulnerable populations
The AIDS Ride for Life, now in its 26th year, brings people together from all different communities, states and countries in support of the Southern Tier AIDS Program (STAP) which serves communities in eight different counties in the Southern Tier. Here's just some of the work that STAP does in Broome, Tompkins, Tioga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Otsego, and Delaware Counties:
Client Services
- HIV/AIDS Support Services; Housing, Ryan White Care Management
- Health Homes of Upstate NY Services; medical linkage services for qualified folks with two or more chronic health conditions.
- Health Homes Supported Housing for folks unstably housed
- HIV Education & Treatment Adherence
- Housing Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Prevention Services
- Syringe Exchange (mobile unit, Ithaca, Norwich, and Johnson City SEP offices)
- Mobil Drug Content Analysis services centralized in JC and Ithaca, essential for analyzing deadly drug content like xylazine, fentanyl, and carfentanil.
- Narcan Overdose Prevention Training to local businesses, communities, schools, and groups.
- STI Testing Services (Chlamydia, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, HEP-C, and HIV)
- Monkeypox (MPOX) Program - Education & Outreach Services
- Criminal Justice Initiative - Prevention Education within NYS Prisons.
- Identity Youth Program, LGBTQ+ & Allies safe space and drop-in center in Binghamton, NY
The AIDS Ride for Life is STAP's biggest fundraising event of the year, money raised at this event fills funding gaps in many of these amazing services!
How Your Support Makes a Difference
Every dollar raised goes to the Southern Tier AIDS Program
By participating in the AIDS Ride for Life, you're helping save lives through STAP's Overdose Prevention Services, connecting medically underserved populations to much needed medical and specialty care through STAP's Health Homes and Ryan White Services, providing valuable harm reduction services like condom distribution, syringe exchange, and Health Hub medical services through STAP's Prevention Point Syringe Exchange Program, and so much more.
Supporting us also means talking about the Southern Tier AIDS Program, about the valuable services we provide to the communities we serve. Talking about the AIDS Ride for Life, puts the taboo word of "AIDS" back into discussions surrounding public health, prevention services, and chronic illness. When you participate in the Ride and fundraise for STAP, you're helping to let your friends, family, and coworkers about us and the work we do!