Short Circuit Cancer

Words and photos by: Jason Pilgrim

Kevin, Jason, Michelle and David make up The Global Kaizen Group

Short Circuit Cancer is a charity run by Brent Collier, a good friend of mine, Exercise Physiologist and dual brain cancer survivor. He works tirelessly in the Fight Back Against Cancer. The Short Circuit Cancer MTB Bike event is a 6hr mountain bike race held for the last 4 years at Heathcote National Park. Solo, teams and kids events are all apart of the day with loads of sponsors like Fraser Cycles, Scott bikes and many others. Brent and his Short Circuit Team along with major sponsor Toyota do an amazing job, with last years event raising more than 60k for Cancer research! Yesterday's event had approx 1500 riders in wet, muddy conditions after a week of rain. Everyone persevered in the often hilly but fun course, with loads of kids activities, expo area and festivities keeping everyone entertained all day. The weather was perfect all day, despite the weather mans predictions and already close to 50k has been raised with a load of other money, collections and donations still needing to be counted. Our team sponsored by The Global Kaizen Group consisted of myself, ex dual Olympic silver medallist Michelle Ferris, David Rankine and Kevin Nelson. Together we completed just over 200km of riding as a team which was a great effort in the tough muddy conditions. A great family day of fun for an amazing cause and I would recommend everyone gets involved in the 2015 event.