Also, with Bob's help, I found an article on the County Courier website that was published in the local paper back on May 30. It's a great write-up on Bob's journey and well worth the read!
An excerpt:
You can read the entire article here: http://www.canyoncourier.com/story_display.php?sid=5610"I’m going to try to do 80 to 100 miles a day," Bob says. "A lot of it is on
back roads, and I’m hoping to finish in 20 days. I’m hoping for a good
tailwind."That would be a tall order for anybody, much less a retired municipal
employee who only recently caught the cycling bug. Three years ago, Bob picked
up a 44-pound Costco bicycle as a healthful summer alternative to his primary
athletic interest, skiing. He got serious about it about a year and a half ago
when an acute case of pancreatitis landed him in the emergency room."The doctor
said I was about one hour away from leaving the hospital in a box, and that was
a big motivator," Bob says. "Now I have a better bike, and I’ve been riding with
Team Evergreen. Last weekend I finished a 100-mile race in Santa Fe in 5 hours
and 40 minutes, and I did last year’s Triple Bypass, which was brutal. It rained
and snowed, and a lot of people didn’t finish it. I almost quit three times, but
I finished it."And now he’s off on the long road to a comfortable cabin beside a
blue lake on Michigan’s green Lower Peninsula, where he’ll rest up and recount
his adventure for a raft of Great Lake State relatives. That his journey will be
rich in personal benefits, Bob has no doubt. That it can enrich a cause he
believes in, he can only hope.
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