CYCLING TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH

Hobbies:
Cycling, gadgets, swimming, running, outdoors, trekking, travelling and keeping fit

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
This is my fourth time.

What motivated you to join?
I'm taking on this challenge because it combines two things I'm passionate about: sports and supporting a worthy Charity cause. Cancer has affected many people close to me and participating in Alive allows me to fight cancer while doing something I love.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
Cycling 1300 km in a week requires preparation, sacrifices, and perseverance. I'm motivated by cancer patients and supportive donors.

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Hobbies:
Cycling

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
No, this is my 9th time.

What motivated you to do the challenge and when you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
I have had quite a few health problems, including a massive stroke and 3 heart attacks. After surviving events like those, I try to make sure other people can survive and reap benefits.

Hobbies:
Cycling and eating

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
This is my fourth time.

What motivated you to do the challenge?
Cycling brings me joy, and I find fulfilment in lending a helping hand to others.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
That all the pain I'm feeling is nothing when compared to cancer patients, especially kids.

Hobbies:
Cycling, swimming, football, music

Is this your first time doing the Challenge?
This is my 5th ALIVE

What motivated you to join?
I love cycling, and ALIVE is an opportunity to do what I like while channeling the time and energy it entails for a good cause.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
In my profession as a pharmacist I meet sick people on a daily basis and I admire the resilience some of them show in the face of diversity. Also, the thought that I will get over it in order to able to recount it spurs me on.

Hobbies:
Football, Cycling, Swimming, Chess, Gardening

Is this your first time doing the Challenge?
Yes

What motivated you to join?
Two things in life give me great satisfaction; helping others and doing sports. The ALIVE Cycling Challenge gives me the opportunity to do both at the same time.

When you’re at breaking point, what keeps you going?
The fact that I know I am doing something to help others keeps me focused and motivates me to push my limits over the breaking point. I also like to visualise my beer at the end of it as a small reward for my efforts 😊

Hobbies:
Endurance Events in Running & Cycling, Cars, Travelling.

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
This is my third time.

What motivated you to do the challenge?
My goal is to aid and inspire others facing health challenges, like being a Crohn's Disease patient myself. I live by the mottos "Anything is possible" and "Make choices, never look back.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
Same as above and live today like there is no tomorrow.

Hobbies:
Football, travelling, hanging out and cycling

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
This is my 2nd Alive, with the 1st being predominantly on backup duties.

What motivated you to do the challenge and when you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
I am someone who loves giving a helping hand and Alive's main aim is a noble cause. I keep going, knowing what I endure due to training and fatigue, is very petty compared to the physical and psychological distress cancer patients and their families go through.

Hobbies:
Cycling & Sports

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
This is my fourth time

What motivated you to do the challenge?
The challenging Route

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
Knowing that the more difficult the goal, the greater the achievement and in life challenges make you stronger.

Hobbies:
Cycling, Football, Photography

Is this your first time doing the Challenge?
No, it's my third time following my participation in last year's challenge.

What motivated you to join?
Making a difference by collecting funds for cancer research, raising awareness, and inspiring others.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
I remind myself that my temporary physical and psychological pain pales in comparison to cancer survivors, patients, and victims. I revisit my commitment to this challenge for renewed perspective.

Hobbies:
Everything which has to do with sport and fitness (mens sana in corpore sano!) / motorcycles - overland touring) / spending time & planning trips with family and friends.

Is your first time doing the challenge?
2nd time - first in 2019 OSLO to AMSTERDAM.

What motivates you to do the challenge?
It's a challenge first and foremost and it's for a very good cause. Being a teacher, I love disseminating ALIVE's creed around schools and teaching students to be more socially emphatic, eat healthy, do sports and keep studying to be our future researchers, so that all together we can beat this Cancer asap.

When at breaking point, what keeps you going?
Discipline, commitment and perseverance. In life it's not always sunny. In rainy, cold wintery weather and force 8 winds (symbolising bad periods in life and sickness too) one has to keep focused and move forward, keep positive and don't look back... Sometimes in life experiencing bad times is a blessing, because it makes one really appreciate more the good ordinary times and the simple things in life.

Hobbies:
Cycling & Walking

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
This is the 3rd ALIVE Cycling challenge for me.

What motivated you to do the challenge?
The courage and outlook on life shown by cancer patients and survivors are inspiring.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
Our sacrifices in preparation pale in comparison to what cancer patients endure during and after treatment.

Hobbies:
Cycling & Scuba Diving

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
Yes, this is my second time.

What motivated you to do the challenge?
Personal challenge with a value to society

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
The image of a hearty plate of pasta that follows the ride! 😉

Hobbies:
Cycling – Flying aeroplane models

Is this your first time doing the Challenge?
No, this is my second time.

What motivated you to join?
Meeting friendly people and the challenge itself.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
Motivation to help each other and to make courage to continue invest in research.

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
Yes this is my first time.

What motivated you to do the challenge and when you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
I was motivated by a present participant who went out of his way to convince me to join in this year’s event. I decided to participate primarily to help raise funds for a great cause and also as an opportunity to get in shape. So far the intense training has given me a feeling of fitness I haven’t had for some time. But most of all being surrounded by a great group of new friends and cousins of mine , all with the same mind set and goal keeps me motivated to keep pushing on when the going gets tough !

Hobbies:
Music, Aviation, Photography, Fitness and Anything Technical.

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
No this is my second time

What motivated you to do the challenge?
Motivation comes from pushing my limits and feeling accomplished, while supporting cancer research in honour of personal losses.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
I guess that it is down to the motivation of pushing myself, knowing that it is all for a noble cause and honouring my commitment to my sponsors.

Hobbies:
Cycling, Swimming, Running, Music.

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
No, my 8th

What motivated you to do the challenge and when you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
Challenging myself and focusing on what ALIVE's goal.

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
This is my third time

What motivated you to do the challenge?
As a cancer survivor, I was grateful for the support I received, and now I pay it forward.

When you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
When fundraising becomes challenging, I persevere by cycling, embracing my passion and assisting others in need.

Hobbies?
Very predictively, cycling 🙂 as well as running, trekking, yoga, reading.

Is this your first time doing the ALIVE Cycling Challenge?
No, this is my second time

What motivated you to join?
The idea of being able to raise funds for such a worthy cause whilst also doing something I love.

The ALIVE Cycling Challenge entails big sacrifices. What keeps you going when you're at breaking point?
The feeling of satisfaction that I know I will experience once I surpass an obstacle. I also keep in mind that I am lucky that I am healthy and able to participate in such a challenge in the first place and that my "suffering" is trivial and short-lived compared to the suffering which anyone battling cancer is experiencing.

Hobbies:
Fitness, hiking, swimming

Is this your first time doing the challenge?
5th

What motivated you to do the challenge and when you're at breaking point, what keeps you going?
The challenge of seeing how far my body can go and how much it can endure.