America’s largest perimeter bicycling event will be in Tucson, Arizona (Tucson Condo Rentals) on Saturday, November 22, 2008.  This is the El Tour de Tucson XXVI (26).  Bring your bikes to Tucson, enjoy fantastic weather and help raise funds for life-threatening illnesses. 

El Tour is a fun ride attracting over 9,000 cyclists of all ages and abilities from throughout the United States and beyond, including novice, intermediate, advanced, and professional riders.  Participants often take part in El Tour and its festivities simply due to their passion for cycling, while others choose the event as part of a healthy lifestyle change or as part of their wellness program as a survivor from cancer or other life-threatening illness.  Many are attracted to El Tour’s variety of fund-raising programs for charitable agencies, for which the event raised over $1.8 million dollars last year.  What all riders of El Tour share is a desire to get on their bikes, meet great people and have fun doing it!

Participants may choose to cycle 109, 80, 67 or 35 miles, plus a 4-mile and 1/4-mile Kids and Family Fun Ride, open to kids, parents and friends.  Main routes take participants around scenic areas of Tucson, with beautiful vistas of its local mountain ranges – three rising over 9000 feet – all complete with the backdrop of the mighty saguaro cactus, icon of the Southwest’s Sonoran Desert.  Course profiles can be rolling to moderately hilly, though the 35-mile route is basically flat and great as a family affair or for beginners.

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