Mark Galedo CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/Jazy Garcia
Southeast Asian Games gold medalists Mark John Lexer Galedo and Marella Vania Salamat will head the men and women elite cast in the Pru Life UK’s PRUride PH 2018 kicking off Jan. 11 in Subic and Bataan and on Jan. 21 at McKinley West in Taguig City.
Free registration—through the official website https://PRUride.PH —awaits Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) license holders in the men and women elite, men and women under-23 and men and women junior categories for the PRUride PH Professional Road Race.
Besides the honor of wearing the national champion’s jersey, to be awarded by the sanctioning Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines (PhilCycling), a total cash prize of more than P1 million will go to the top finishers in all categories of the highly competitive event
The top finishers will also get the chance to ride in the Prudential Ride London 2018 in July—all expenses paid.
The champions of the men and women elite categories for both PRUride Professional Road Race and PRUride Criterium will receive P50,000 each.
The men under-23 category winners for all races will bring home P20,000 each.
Prizes in the men elite races are scaled down to the 20th place with the second and third placers getting P25,000 and P15,000, respectively.
The 136-kilometer road race for men and 120-km for women elite and men juniors is set on Jan. 12 on a scenic route that will start and finish at the Subic Bay Exposition and Convention Center.
The individual time trial (ITT) for all categories will be staged on Jan. 13 over a 30-km (for professionals) or a 15-km course (for amateurs) also on an out-and-back course at SBECC. PRUride PH 2018 will likewise stage the 100-km and 50-km Gran Fondo events on Jan. 14 in Subic.
Riders can also choose among 14 race subcategories and display their skills on a circuit in the criterium race set on Jan. 21 at McKinley West.