{"id":344743,"date":"2025-12-13T05:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344743\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:51:08","slug":"pitching-in-an-around-the-world-cycling-tour-for-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344743\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching in: An around-the-world cycling tour for cancer research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The organizer: Mark Herbst <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The pitch: Raising $45,000<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The cause: Toronto\u2019s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/XZCH7ZGSFJECFN7RJ5CLC4KWOE.JPG?auth=3b6729cb70f0af82080c56363944cd855bb8f549c6aa0dd40d43a63cfbdf81d8&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Mark Herbst finished a 30,000-kilometre bike ride around the world to raise money for cancer research in honour of his wife, Jackie, who died of cancer at age 55.Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Mark Herbst rode his bike across San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Bridge last summer when he stopped in the same place he\u2019d stood with his wife, Jackie, months before she died of cancer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The couple had been avid cyclists, and Ms. Herbst had also participated in CrossFit and finished an Ironman event. She died in 2021 at the age of 55. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">As he stood near the bridge once again, memories of Jackie came flooding back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cIt really hit me, just remembering it. I started getting some tears, and then I was making a video and I just lost it like a baby,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Mr. Herbst, 69, was passing through San Francisco as part of an around-the-world cycling tour he completed this year in honour of Jackie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">He started the journey in Thailand on Jan. 7, 2025, and finished in Bangkok last month, winding his way through 25 countries and covering 30,000 kilometres. Along the way he raised nearly $50,000 for Toronto\u2019s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/2EBLJAZHWZCUZCTTAOLTMLPCGU.jpg?auth=0c997f9fc621d916ceb40111c2b76882fe23b5e0c2c5219ba230bc37248d7507&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Herbst biked through 25 countries on his charity ride.Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">He hopes to have set a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to circle the globe on a bicycle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cI\u2019ve been a big cyclist my entire life, and from a racing perspective, from a coaching perspective,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">He\u2019d been trying to find purpose in his life after Jackie\u2019s death and he looked up the existing record for circumventing the globe. He discovered that it belonged to a 56-year-old man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cI was shocked at that. I thought it\u2019d be a lot older. And I thought, \u2018Wow, I could do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Now back home in Bracebridge, Ont., where he runs a coaching business, Mr. Herbst plans to write a book about his journey. It will be based on a daily journal he kept that recorded his highs and lows, and the support he felt from his wife. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cShe was out there watching over me,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no question. I could feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organizer: Mark Herbst The pitch: Raising $45,000 The cause: Toronto\u2019s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Open this photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,21363,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-344743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-noastack","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}