Alberta man once given 5% chance of survival to cycle 1,500 km to Vancouver
On December 19, 2012, Richard Bone heard a sentence most people hope to never encounter – words he would go onto hear seven more times in his life.In 2013, doctors discovered four inoperable lymph node tumours in Bone’s heart. The Ponoka man was told there was a five per cent chance of making it past one year.
Today, he’s using his love for cycling towards both a personal and global cause, taking part in the Great Cycling Challenge. The challenge works by registering online and then tracking kilometers with an app. Distance can be clocked either on a stationary bike or out on the road all throughout the month of August. Ride goals are completely up to the participant, and they do not have to be hit in one single ride. All kilometers will count as long as they’re logged between Aug. 1 to 30.
“One of the things that got to me was that I didn’t have any granddkids, I was only 42. In 2016, our granddaughter was born. So then it became ‘I have to see her first birthday’, and that it became ‘I have to be there for her first day of school’, and it just goes on,” he said.
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