{"id":127670,"date":"2017-07-13T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=127670"},"modified":"2017-07-13T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:54:43","slug":"uconn-med-students-halfway-home-cross-country-cycling-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/07\/uconn-med-students-halfway-home-cross-country-cycling-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Med Students Halfway Home From Cross-country Cycling Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two UConn medical students who are spending their last free summer bicycling across the country are more than halfway home.<\/p>\n

Sonali Rodrigues and Brett Lehner, have been averaging about 64 miles a day since they started pedaling east from Anacortes, Washington, June 10.<\/p>\n

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An old mine entrance in eastern Washington (coast2coastforacause2017.wordpress.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They are the 12th<\/sup> team of rising second-year students to take part in what\u2019s now known as Coast to Coast for a Cause, an annual cross-country cycling tour to raise money for, in this year\u2019s case, is \u201cAn Apple a Day,\u201d a public health project to improve access to and education around nutrition in Connecticut schools.<\/p>\n

Using the predetermined bike route known as the Northern Tier as their guide, Rodriguez and Lehner making their way to Connecticut by way of the states closest to the Canadian border\u2014and the Great Lakes, having reached Minnesota a few days ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling good, happy the weather has been nice for us,\u201d Lehner says. \u201cThere are definitely a lot of places to see, and each is interesting in its own right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The view from what’s known as the “Going to the Sun Road” in Glacier National Park in Montana. (coast2coastforacause2017.wordpress.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One night this week the weather wasn\u2019t so nice in Dalbo, Minnesota. As it happened, rather than camping outside, they were spending the night in a converted barn, which kept them dry as a severe storm rolled by. Lehner describes this and other examples of the kindness of strangers they\u2019ve encountered along the way on the riders\u2019 blog, coast2coastforacause2017.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been interesting to see all of the tiny different towns and corners of state\u2019s I\u2019ve never been to,\u201d Rodrigues says. \u201cI also have been amazed by my appetite.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A long stretch of road in Malta, Montana, just after a thunderstorm passed (coast2coastforacause2017.wordpress.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The students are on pace for a mid-August return to Connecticut. They do plan to continue the tradition of biking with friends from UConn Health to the Connecticut shore to officially end the journey by reaching the East Coast. By then they’ll have covered about 3,500 miles.<\/p>\n

Information about how to support Coast to Coast for a Cause 2017 is available at bit.ly\/17c2cfundraise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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