LOCKDOWN HEROES
Geraint’s NHS Zwift shifts
DATE: APRIL 15-17
MONEY RAISED: £375,483
KEY STAT: 3 X 12HR SHIFTS
Probably the most high-profile fundraising effort, certainly as far as British cycling fans are concerned, was Geraint Thomas’s three back-to-back 12-hour turbo-trainer efforts, designed to mirror the shifts of an NHS worker. Still open at the time of writing, ‘G’s NHS Zwift Shifts’ had generated £375,483 on his GoFundMe page for NHS Charities Together – more than £173 for every minute ridden.
The Team Ineos rider, at home in Wales for much of lockdown, came up with the idea after deciding he wanted to give something back.
“I just wanted to help out. I thought the best way was to raise some money, and I came up with the idea of mirroring the NHS worker’s shift,” Thomas says. The 2018 Tour de France winner, who has since returned to his home in Monaco with his family, was supported by his wife Sara and baby boy. He also enjoyed support from followers on his Facebook page, where the
