Cambridge’s Euan Bingham is turning miles into dollars for cancer research.
The soon-to-be 11-year-old has brought back his bike ride fundraiser to raise money for the Terry Fox Foundation Ride of Hope.
“I like that I’m helping with cancer research,” Bingham told CTV News on Thursday.
Euan’s partnership with the Terry Fox Foundation’s Ride of Hope started in 2020 when he was only seven years old.
“Maybe this is something we could do as a family,” his mother Kelly recalled suggesting. “Right away he was like: ‘Oh yeah, I definitely want to do that.’”
Euan rode 70 kilometres on his seventh birthday, then 80 kilometres the following year and 90 kilometres the next. In 2023, at the age of 10, Euan completed his first 100 kilometre ride.
On Saturday, Euan embarked on a 110 kilometre ride starting in Galt, then to Brantford and back, just days before his 11th birthday.
“The windy spots were kind of hard, …