ONE of India’s finest ultra cyclists, Orange City’s own Dr Amit Samarth will embark on a 6000 km long journey starting from Gateway of India, Mumbai on Monday. The cycling route will be along the Golden Quadrilateral of India covering places like Mumbai – Pune – Kolhapur – Hubli – Bengaluru – Chennai – Visakhapatnam – Kolkata – Varanasi – New Delhi – Jaipur – Udaipur – Ahmedabad – Vadodara and back to Mumbai.

 

Dr Samarth hopes to complete the journey inside 15 days riding about 18-20 hours every day covering a distance of 450-500 kms daily. It will be journey of a man across four corners of India to promote a healthy lifestyle and to test the limits of human endurance. Dr Samarth will be raising funds for a Sports Project at Lok Biradari Prakalp run by Dr Prakash Amte.

 

These funds will be used for guiding and building talented aspirational rural youth for sporting activities. Those interested may get the live feed of the event at www.rideacrossindia.com. Dr Samarth, who is Director of ProHEALTH Foundation and Miles N Milers Endurance Sports Academy, is the only man in Asia to have completed the two longest cycling races in the world, namely Race Across America (RAAM) and Trans Siberian Extreme (TSE).