Bowen donates to cycling race

On June twentieth Belizean and foreign cyclists will be pedalling from Benque Viejo Del Carmen to Belize City in the second annual Father’s Day Cycling Classic. The race is hosted by F.M. 2000 and sponsored by Bowen and Bowen Limited. This morning, the company handed over five thousand dollars that will be used to fund prizes for the race. In accepting the cheque from Bowen and Bowen Marketing Manager Nick Pollard, Cycling Association President and F.M. 2000 Chief, Gerald Garbutt, says Belizeans should expect an exciting race.

Gerald Garbutt, Managing Director, F.M 2000

“The route will be from Benque. We start at eight o?clock Sunday morning, leave Benque going to Belmopan around the Ring Road, come out back and our way back to Belize City to the Marion Jones Stadium.”

Jacqueline Woods

?How many cyclists will be competing??

Gerald Garbutt

?We are watching about between twelve to fifteen foreigners, plus about sixty to seventy local riders.?

Nicholas Pollard, Sales/Marketing Mgr., Bowen & Bowen

“We just launched PowerAde in April just before the annual cross country and it?s been having excellent results in the market. So we looked at it and we saw that it was an excellent opportunity for PowerAde to be involved with the Father?s Day Cycling Classic.”

The race will finish at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex where there will be additional events including a female mountain bike competition