The hubby and I did an annual "charity" ride put on by one of the local racers. It's a pretty informal thing. The organizer passes around an empty water bottle and everyone donates. The money goes to a local food bank. We all meet at a spot that many a training ride leaves from and do a 30 mile loop. The ride usually stays all together for at least 1/2 of it and we're a pretty cool sight. I'd say there were about 100 of us there, so that means there was probably at least around $500 in the water bottle. It was pretty miserable out today- raining, cold and windy - so around the 1/2 way point lots of people took off to go home or at least go home faster . Its a nice way to socialize with people on other teams that you don't get to talk to all of the time.