Three New Brunswickers will fly their bikes to Vancouver next month, .and will cycle back to Moncton in support of the Tree of Hope Campaign.
Mariette Demers is 63 years old, .and she has been cycling since she was a teenager.
She says they’ll begin their ride on June 11th or 12th, “We plan around 63 days, but we have to respect our limits because if there is a lot of rain, we will have to stop one day.”
She says she began training months ago, “During the winter time, I was doing training inside. Now that the weather is better, we are training outside and we are carrying the baggage that we will carry when we ride across the country this summer. Yesterday, I rode 70 kilometres, and nTuesday 52 kilometres and yesterday because it was rainy I did it inside, and I did 82 kilometres.”
Demers says this has been a dream, and she is glad to now be in good health to be able to complete this challenge with the two others, Paul Demers and Father Doris Leplante.
The Tree of Hope campaign is an annual event that raises funds for cancer research in New Brunswick. Since 1989, it has raised nearly 24 million dollars.
