A woman has completed a 2,000 mile (3,219km) cycle challenge across the United States on a route in the shape of the word “kindness”.
Nahla Summers, 46, who lives in Yarm, pedalled a two-seater quadricycle for about 40 miles a day since the start of May from Minnesota to Iowa.
She founded the community interest company Sunshine People, which encourages acts of kindness, following her journey with grief after her husband Paul passed away while on a charity bike ride.
Summers said “exhaustion has definitely set in” but it was “incredible” to know her journey had sparked conversations about kindness.
She said the final day brought the “biggest challenges” with weather conditions, road closures, bike issues and exhaustion, but that it had been the “incredible effort of people coming together” that kept her going.
“I’ve had a couple of wobbles, but generally, I’ve got the attitude after doing all of these challenges – if you tell yourself you can, you generally will,” she said.
Summers regularly challenges herself to raise awareness of the “positive impact of kindness”, including completing a 5,007 mile (8,058km) route across the UK on an ElliptiGO while also spelling the word.