Twenty-one members of the Houston Police Department geared up for their six-day trek to fight cancer. KPRC2Sabirah
These officers will bike 1,500 miles to Salt Lake City.“We’re riding to Salt Lake City,” he said. “It’s kind of emotional.”
For him and the other 20 members of HPD, it’s a roll call for HPD’s 42nd annual ride in the fight against cancer. And in this summer heat, it’s an assignment that will require physical and emotional endurance. “My father, sister-in-law and a couple of other relatives that have been through this, they don’t have spring mornings and cool fall evenings,” Kunkel said. “So, we are trying to simulate as much as we can to ourselves and keep reminding ourselves what these family members and friends go through when they are going through treatment.”“There was a woman out near White Sands on a tricycle motorcycle and passed us.
The teams included both current and former officers as well as some community members. So far, they’ve raised $85,000. “It’s not just leukemia and lymphoma patients but the research for those blood cancers can go over to all the other cancers and every story big and small. It just gives you goosebumps,” Kunkel said.
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