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Cyclist proves it’s all about focus Tour de Victoria rider conquers distance with one leg
years who do (one-legged cycling) … but I still don’t have a direct comparison,” he says. “I think a lot of amputees are too smart to do that long a distance.” About 1,600 people are registered for the third annual Tour de Victoria hil Chew sees longthis weekend, with about 1,000 distancing cycling like a chess game: make subtle but cyclists set to ride alongside Chew strategic moves early on and and Hesjedal on the 140-km route. Shorter 100-km and 50-km routes are you’ll start to see dividends when also available for those wanting a the board thins out. less-gruelling ride. So on Sunday, when the 61-year“We do tend to get a lot of lastold hits the first of more than minute registrations,” says organizer 1,500 metres of incline during Seamus McGrath. “We Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour hit 1,750 last year, but it’s de Victoria, he’ll take hard to say at this point. advantage of his missing If it pours rain, we might leg where he can. stay at that. If it’s sunny, “I’m a really good we could hit 2,000.” climber because I’m so McGrath says he’s light. With one leg, I’m been most impressed not as fast on the flats,” with how the community Chew says from his home rallies behind the event, in Whistler. “I love ripping despite an organizational the face off any two-legged nightmare with six police person out there, that’s my through goal.” Daniel Palmer departments nearly every Capital Chew lost his leg to Reporting Region jurisdiction. cancer in 1977 and shared “There’s never been the same rehabilitative anything negative, we ward as Terry Fox at just have to go through the right the B.C. Cancer Control Agency in channels and everyone supports Vancouver. it wholeheartedly,” he says. “It’s a While his old friend became world-class ride.” the poster child for conquering Chew hopes to complete this the disease, Chew fought his own year’s Tour de Victoria in under five mental and physical battle to hours after running into mechanical become one of the world’s top problems during last year’s ride. Paralympic downhill skiers of the FINE CUSTOM JEWELLERS “I think I can do maybe under 1980s and 1990s. 4:50, realistically. … I’m doing More than three decades later, this to show others that people Chew is regularly competing in with disabilities can achieve dozens of granfondo-style races, some unbelievable things, not most recently pulling off a top seven just amongst disabled people, but per cent finish in his age group at amongst the ten-toed freaks, too.” this year’s GranFondo Whistler, a The 140-km Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour gruelling 122-km ride up the Sea-tode Victoria begins at 7 a.m. in front Sky Highway with more than 1,700 of the B.C. legislature. metres of climbing. FINE CUSTOM JEWELLERS dpalmer@vicnews.com “I’ve met a few guys over the
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Early warning sign Malcolm Pearson, left, and Richard Van Leeuwen place signs on Windsor Road as a reminder to traffic that Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria rides through Oak Bay this Sunday.
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