CARP – July 28 was the end of leg two of a fundraising bicycle trip from the left coast to the right for three Carp residents.

Carp residents Nicolette Frosst, Gordon Frosst and Jeff Hemstreet are dividing a coast-to-coast bicycle trip while trying to raise money for brain cancer research.

The three just finished up their second summer of cycling on July 28 after travelling from Winnipeg to Carp in just 28 days.

The group pedaled from Vancouver to Winnipeg during the 2018 summer before returning home. This summer was leg two of three as the group through the middle of Canada. The gang will wrap up their trip next summer as they travel from Carp to Newfoundland.

“Home to Carp,” the three pedaling fundraisers wrote on their Instagram account Coast2CoastBikeTour upon their arrival. “Our good friends, Alison and Peter Green, were waiting for us in the village equipped with Canadian flags and a sign. We then met Graham and Deb Thompson too who remarkably had a similar sign. Yve and Jim, our neighbours were waiting with a bottle of champagne. What a welcome. All in all, a great leg, and we managed to raise $1,600 for the Brain Tumour Foundation too.”

Nicolette told West Carleton Online the crew raised about $2,000 the year before.

After two summers of pedaling, the trio have travelled 4,910 kilometres and 97,700 vertical feet. Their time on the bike over two summers is 251 hours.

“Approximately 1.3 million turns of the crank from Vancouver to Ottawa,” the group reported.

“What surprised me most was the amount of cumulative vertical in Ontario relative to the Rockies,” Gordon said. “Nice to be back. Ottawa to Signal Hill via as many provinces as possible next summer. First, my (bottom) needs a break.”

For more photos of their incredible trip, visit their Instagram account here.