The 2024 Cops for Cancer Tour de North is underway.
A group of Mounties left Dawson Creek yesterday (Friday) on a seven day cycle en route to Williams Lake, fundraising for childhood cancer research.
Allison Fenske is a Public Service Employee with the General Investigation Section of the Prince George RCMP, and is taking on the ride for the first time.
“I’m feeling so excited, a little bit anxious with just if I’m going to be able to keep up with everybody and all of those things, but I’m very excited to ride with the team,” Fenske said.
“We’ve got a super great team this year, and I’m just excited to get on with it.”
Fenske said the training has been intense.
“We have our mandatories, we have an 80 kilometre mandatory, we have 120, and 140,” she explained.
“I would say, oddly enough, the hardest one that I had to do was an 80 kilometre ride, I had done an 80 kilometre ride with one of the other riders, and then another local rider needed to do hers, and I volunteered to go with her, and we got lost. I don’t think we were quite at that level of training to attack the elevation gains we did that day, and it was very hard.”
Fenske said she thinks the group is as prepared as they can be.
“I think the biggest thing is our bodies might get sore, but we have to remember why we’re riding.”
The tour is expected to arrive in Prince George on Tuesday, and at their destination in Williams Lake on Thursday.
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