ONHP goes on a ride! Do not forget to take a bike!

On September 27, 2014 ONHP held the first bike ride in Omsk dedicated to the Global Car-Free Day

ONHP employees actively take part in large-scale sporting regional events and often act as initiators thereof. The company promotes healthy lifestyle and passion for sports that is so common for engineers.

Specialists of all ages as well as their children participated in the bike ride arranged by ONHP on September 27. They proudly decorated their bikes with branded yellow flags and balloons and walked as a united team down Omsk streets.

Cyclists row from the age of 2 up to 61 years old  took off at ONHP and having overcome 16-kilometer distance, completed the run in the same place in an hour and a half. The support group, headed by the General Director Mr. Andrey L. Goncharov saw off and encountered their colleagues with smiles and festive music.

For some ONHP employees such a ride is a matter of habit as far as many of them stick to healthy lifestyle and day by day commute to work by bike. However, for some participants such a long race was a first time experience.

On the finish tired but happy specialists having been awarded with diplomas by the General Director shared their impressions of the event. The eldest member of the bike ride, Mr. Yuri Ivanov (61 years old, Civil Engineering Department No.2) every day commutes to ONHP by bike. Yuri shared his opinion on the run:

- The event was arranged at an appropriate level. I have only positive impressions in this regard! I truly hope that next year the route will pass through the center of the city, so that we have more spectators.

- It was a great bike ride which inspired us and gave an energy boost for the whole day! I was pleased to participate in this event! I hope it will become a tradition for our company and every year new participants will join this event - said Lyudmila Sheveleva (19 years, Interdisciplines Engineering Department).
Tolkyn S. Sadbekova (22 years, Interdisciplines Engineering Department): 

- I'm very glad that I had an opportunity to participate in this event. It was great! The whole spectrum of emotions!

Alexey Buzenius (27 years old, Civil Engineering Department No.2) was not by himself. His son Roman (2 years old) participated in the ride in the child seat throughout the whole 16 kilometers track.
-Me and my child were delighted by the ride! It was a pleasure. Our whole family loves such mass sports events and we always participate in them. Unfortunately, I live far away, so I have to go to work by car, but I am very pro-cycling - said a sporty dad and a civil engineer Alexey N. Buzenius. 

- I loved it! Even the cold wind could not prevent us from achieving the set goal, - said Vyacheslav V. Ivanov (22 years, Interdisciplines Engineering Department).

Obviously, nowadays it is impossible to abandon cars, but events carried out by ONHP are aimed at a healthy lifestyle and are an example of pro-active position of company employees.  

2014 Bike Ride was a first-time experience for ONHP but the next year we are willing to do it again and make it more fascinating and widespread, having invited for this event the partners and ONHP branch employees from other cities as well as just cycling fans!

29 September 2014