Last Update

Hey hey!

So, yes I am done my ride, but the fight never really ends. So far I have raised $5420!!!! Wicked I know. I am also in a Youth Noise blog/article if you want to check it out! And, I am on of the heroes on Kids Are Heroes website, click me.

I have surpassed my goal, and that is awesome. I always thought I could ride across BC, but never thought that I could fundraise that much money, I did both and more! So thank you very much to everybody!

I don't know if anybody is still reading this, but if you are, I hope you enjoyed reading about my journey as much I as I enjoyed doing it. (And just so you know, riding across BC was the coolest and best thing I have done in my life so far.)

I also have a personal blog, so if you ever feel like a read, click here.

Peace Like a River

I Made It!

I made it, I biked all the way across BC. I rode 1,227km, (I double checked that number). It is pretty cool. When I started out and thought of the idea, I never though that I would ever make it all the way across, all the way to Victoria! I did. Pam from the Canadian Cancer Society called me, and met me at "Mile Zero" with flowers and balloons from the Cancer Society. Mile Zero is where Terry Fox had hoped to end his run. I actually got lost trying to find it today and had to be rescued. My friends from school Gita, Maryann and Alicia were also there to great me and see me finish. That was great! Also a family friend Bev came and my friend Shannon's grandma, Mrs. Carlsen, came to great me to! It was pretty cool, but I am exhausted. At least Gita made me cookies and brownies...that was awesome, Gita is the best cook, I love her!

I am really glad I did this, it was really rewarding experience, difficult, but rewarding. I also get to be in Snaps magazine, which is also pretty cool. Enjoy the pictures. The journey is over, but the fight will continue. I am still accepting donations, DONATE

On the ferry going to Victoria

Biking from the ferry to Victoria, 38km

Alicia came to find me, I was only like 500m from the monument, but I was lost. Thanks Alicia

Woo, I made it!

My mom and I in front of "Mile Zero"

Pam, Gita, Alicia, Me, Mrs. Carlsen, and Bev

Pam and I

Maryann, Alicia, Gita and I in front of Legislature

Exhausted in front of Legislature, but happy

1 Day 2 Go

Whoo!

Stage 11, Hope to Mission, 77km, is done. Nothing to exciting happened today really, it was pretty much really flat and very boring. There was only one big hill, 2km at 11% and I thought a dog was going to eat me on the way up to. It came running out of the bush, and I went from 9km/h to 20km/h in a matter of seconds, thankfully the dog stopped, it did scare me though.

Tomorrow is the last day, tomorrow I will have made it, tomorrow I will be done. I am so close, I can't believe that I will actually make it. Crazy. Well, I don't really have much else for today... My total in donations is now $3,498.01!

Mission almost complete

I need to clean my bike...and my leg

"Manning" Up

They like to make things out of wood here

Stage 10, (yes, we have entered the double digits) Princeton to Hope, 135km. Today's ride went through Manning Park, but I couldn't ride all of it because a lot of it had no shoulder and single lane traffic only. Which probably would have resulted in my death or serious injury if I did ride through those sections. In total, I only rode about 65km today. But I did ride to the top of Allison Summit, 4425 ft. It feels good to be back in the mountains and out of the desert, I feel much more at home and comfortable. The air seems better here, well maybe not in Hope, but it was in Manning Park.

Riding through Manning Park

I am so close to Vancouver, which in turn means I am also really close to Victoria (only a ferry ride away)! Nothing too exciting happened today, other than the shoulder disappearing, it was a pretty solid day. Only 2 days until Victoria...yeah I never thought I would actually get this close. I also didn't think that I would make it over the Salmo-Creston pass, or the Blueberry-Paulson or to Osoyoos but I did. I'm not actually sure how I keep pedaling sometimes, because when I get off the bike for the day I could easily just go to sleep wherever I stop, or as soon as I stop I realize how hot it is and I can't believe that I was riding in that heat, but some how I always keep pedaling.

This sign was very hard to find and get to

Wine, Hills and Cheers

Wine, fruit and highway.

Stage 9, Osoyoos to Princeton, 116km is done. Sorry about the late blog post, but I had to find internet to steel. Today had its ups and downs, literally and figuratively. It was a really hilly day, not huge hills, but lots of 500m up and then 500m down kind of stuff. The last 20km was tough, really tough. It was very hot, and I had a headwind. I did get to smell fruit trees and vineyards for pretty much the whole day though!

Going down from the Richter Summit, 2295ft.

I think what got me through today was all the cheering, waving and honking. Yesterday was the Penticton Ironman, so today the 2000 something racers had to go home. I cheered them on yesterday and today, they cheered me on! I got waves, honks, cheers and $20. This one car passed me honking and waving, then next thing you know he is pulled off the road 1km. He got out of his car and was cheering me on, then he stopped my mom when she went by and donated $20, and gave me a bag that said "Marathon Swim" on it, apparently he swam 26.2 miles for a charity and was impressed by what I was doing. I also got honked at by my first motorhome today...but I think that they were in the Ironman. Only 317km left to vancouver!!!! Yeah!

WOOO!

Ironman

Penticton Ironman, and some crazy people!

Stage 8 = a rest, for me at least! Today is a rest day in beautiful, hot Osoyoos. All I have done so far today is eat, sleep, swim and chill. But, I did watch my first Ironman. The Penticton Ironman rolled through Osoyoos this morning. It was a pretty cool thing to watch, and I did not know that there were so many insane people out there! Who wants to swim 3.4km, cycle 180km then run a marathon (42.2km)? Well... I do someday...but I will save that for a later date, like when I am legally old enough to do it!

Go man go!

Other than that, I have just been hanging out with my grandma Dar, and great aunts Joyce and Ellie today who came down from Kelowna to spend sometime with us. Tomorrow I have my last pass to go over, but is a small one, only 11km up. Only 5 more days of riding left and about 430km!! Almost there!

Dar, Ellie, Joyce and my right leg


My mom and I enjoying some sun.

What Goes Up...Must Come Down

Finally

Stage 7, Grandforks - Osoyoos, 126km, and lots of ascending and descending. Today I suffered, a lot. I got a bit of heat exhaustion yesterday, so I paid for it today. I did not know that I had to climb so much today, and it rained, then it got really hot, and then I got to go down, and I mean down!

I started off today with a 10km hill going up, which I did not really enjoy, and I seemed to go up pretty much for 100km (99.96km). Not always steep up, but definitely up with the occasional tease going down which always resulted in an even bigger hill going up. I will from now on refer to uphill as "the enemy." I had many enemies today, so many. But, coming down into Osoyoos almost made up for the many enemies I conquered on the way up. Down was so fun, on the 180 degree corner that was marked 20km/h, I went 42km/h...so fun.

Today I definitely rode solely on will power, I was so done at 60km and I was only half way there and had a lot more up to go. I am glad I have a rest day again tomorrow, I need it. My knees hurt, I am sunburnt, and I am so tired. So I think I will go take a nap.

Looking at the "Enemy," it was big and I did not want to go up it at all and it was raining.

Conquering the "Enemy"

Sasquatch