Bears, rain and mountains and a 900 km MTB race through Greece with 29000 m elevation gain
LKLukáš Klement
On Saturday 25.5.2024 the Hellenic Mountain Race through Greece will start, where the route is 900 km long (which is not much), but who knows what it means to climb 29.000 vertical meters on this distance, already knows that it will be really, really hard.
Besides my personal motivation, I want to support the DOMESTICI project and bring them closer to their dream of raising 10 million for palliative care. Become a Domestique too and come with me to raise 30 000 CZK.
Palliative care deals with how to leave with dignity, how not to fear death and how to cope with mortality. By doing so, people actually gain freedom and can live more fully. I define it a little bit in my own way, in terms of what actually describes why I'm even a little bit of a buddy with death and why it's good that we're not immortal.
I've done a lot in the last year:
2000 km Gravel race in Holland - 3rd place
One of the hardest bikepacking races, the Silk Road Mountain Race- 5th place
Then I helped and created the world's largest symbol at 2850 km.
The Atlas Mountin Race in Morocco, 1400 km long, didn't go so well - 13th place
Crossing Israel during the war and when Iran fired 300 rockets
Now I am standing at the start of one of the most prestigious MTB bikepacking races in the world again and we are going to the box and we are going to help ❤️
Now we're going to try something that doesn't get talked about much, and that's preparedness for DEATH. For some it's a scarecrow, for some it's a deliverance, for some it's the circle of life. For me, it's a little bit of everything, but I certainly don't want to go to my grave rusty, but rather pretty worn down by life, and that's probably why I'm doing all of this in the first place. That's why I'm doing what 99% of people can't even imagine, sleeping outdoors under a rescue bivvy, not sleeping for days at a time and pedaling my bike and testing what the human body can actually do. The main thing for me is that I do what I want and when it comes I won't regret that I had a dream and never actually tried to fulfill it. DOMESTIC is raising money for palliative care and the amount will be added directly to the main fundraiser and 100% of the donations go to the beneficiaries = three palliative care organizations.
In short, I want to go into that box one day ready to say "that was a fucking ride and it was fucking worth it".
And what do I want from you?
I'd like to motivate you a little bit to contribute something to that coffers for the guys who are doing something for others. As a second thing, while we're on the subject, I want to point out a little bit what there's not exactly time for in today's fast-paced life. It's about making time for yourself and doing everything you can so that when it comes, you can say it was worth it.
DOMESTICI.CZ | Martin Soucek | For a Dignified End of Life
Nadace Via
We will ride 5,000 kilometers on a bicycle from the west to the east coast of the USA to support the development of palliative care in the Czech Republic together. I have positioned myself at the center of a team of domestiques who share a common goal – to get the racer to the finish line in the best physical and mental condition possible. This task is similar to that of the relatives of the severely ill and dying – to accompany their loved ones to the end. Become one of the domestiques and join this incredible adventure of helping.
Life should be of quality and dignity until the last second. That's why palliative care is here. My dream is that together we will manage to raise 10 million CZK for this challenging aspect of life, which concerns each of us.
Domestici.cz = 10 million for palliative care, making the journey meaningful.
We will ride in a relay with Tomáš Navrátil in one of the toughest ultra-cycling races in the world: 5,000 kilometers in a mere 9-day limit. A race that cannot be managed without domestiques, those who help the racer reach the finish line. And it is these helpers, domestiques for palliative care, that I am looking for. Therefore, all your donations will be distributed for the direct support of palliative care in the Czech Republic. We will help a specific hospice, support the provision of mobile hospice care in regions, and invest in awareness, which is extremely important. I wish that together we ensure a quality and dignified life until the last moment for as many people as possible. Whether they are our loved ones or people we don't even know. Palliative care is not here to cure the patient at all costs, but to ensure that their departure is as they would have wished. I wish everyone such a departure. This is how I would like to leave one day. Become a domestique - join and donate.
Across America for Palliative Care!
5,000 km, 9 days, 24 hours in the saddle daily, and at least 555 km underfoot, a community of hundreds and thousands of generous people who think of others. Thank you for becoming a domestique of palliative care and for joining us!
How exactly will your donations help?
I created the Domestici.cz project and joined forces with the Via Foundation, which established the Domestici donor fund and a public collection for the development of palliative care in the Czech Republic. All funds raised will be distributed among great organizations dedicated to palliative care and advancing it in the Czech Republic. Your donations will be distributed among:
Hospice of Saint Lazarus, helping people at the end of life in the Pilsen region.
The Mobile Hospices Forum, making palliative care more accessible in other regions of the Czech Republic.
The Center for Palliative Care providing education and information, essential for a good end to become commonplace.
Join the domestiques' peloton.
Please join my journey, come to the domestiques and let's change together the way we leave this world in the Czech Republic. How to do it?
Donate an amount you can afford – directly on this page.
Create your personal fundraising challenge for the domestici.cz project at www.darujme.cz/domestici.
Tell your friends and colleagues about domestici.cz and ask them to join too.
Create your own sports challenge and link it with domestici.cz.
Any other way, nothing stands in the way of your creativity.
Become part of the domestiques' peloton! From the bottom of my heart, thank you, Martin Souček and domestiques ---
The domestici.cz project is implemented based on the initiative of Martin Souček in contractual cooperation with domestici.cz s.r.o. For this reason, your personal data will be transferred to domestici.cz s.r.o. to the necessary extent, exclusively for the purposes of project administration (thank you, impact analysis, further communication about the project, its results, and possibilities of its further support, fundraising for the project).
