{"id":37367,"date":"2017-10-26T23:15:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T04:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=37367"},"modified":"2017-10-26T23:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T04:15:30","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-digest-october-26th-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/texas-bicycling-news-digest-october-26th-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News Digest October 26th 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why This 71-Year-Old Man Living With Cancer Is Cycling Across America<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Leigh Weingus | www.mindbodygreen.com<\/h3>\n


\nSeventy-one-year-old Chuck Wakefield was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2003. Since then the Grapevine, Texas, resident has had a bone-marrow transplant, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and is now cycling from Los Angeles, California, to Fairfield, Connecticut. That’s 3,400 miles, if anyone’s counting.
\nBeyond his general love of exercise and how thankful he feels every day for his capable body, Chuck’s ride across the United States has a very clear purpose: to raise …<\/p>\n

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