BikingBis:

eople with serious afflications occasionally bicycle across the US to show that their conditions can be overcome. Few, if any, have biked cross-country with terminal cancer.

But that’s what the 42-year-old UK resident Jane Tomlinson is doing. Diagnosed with incurable metastatic breast cancer in 2000, Tomlinson has put the pain and exhaustin behind her and reached the halfway point of her trans-America bike tour.

Tomlinson left San Francisco on June 29 to bicycle 4,214 miles across the US to New York City by Aug. 31. Here’s a map of Tomlinson’s route.

Accompanied by her husband and son in a support van, Tomlinson’s two daughters remain at home. She’s riding with two other cyclists, one from the UK and the other from Canada.

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