Lobo Cancer Challenge • September 19, 2020
A three-time cancer survivor is giving back through the Lobo Cancer Challenge. Now in remission, she provides fitness training and she knows exactly what her clients may be going through.

 
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Bike Partners
Two bike shops have partnered up with the Lobo Cancer Challenge since the beginning, to help ensure that participants’ bikes are road-ready, or to provide high-performance bikes to rent at a discount. Joshua Arnold of Routes Bicycle Tours says he enjoys the “aspect of health and cycling and seeing the community come together to better itself in such a wonderful, outdoor healthy way. Help fight the battle that affects so many of us.”

 
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Fundraisers like the Lobo Cancer Challenge are so important
For the very first Lobo Cancer Challenge, participants could register for 25, 50 or 100 mile bike rides to raise money for diagnosis and treatment along with important research at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, founded in 1971. Dr. Matthew Fero says the cancer center is needed in New Mexico. “A lot of my patients have told me they did not even know there was a Comprehensive Cancer Center right down the street from them. They would travel out of state and weren’t getting the same quality of care we can provide here... A lot of times we struggle in the early phases of research, where we don’t have the funds to get things going. That’s why fundraisers like the Lobo Cancer Challenge are so important.”

 
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