“Cycling gave me the ability to believe and have hope that I would continue to live a normal life,” he added. Whether road, mountain or gravel bike, Duran says he clocks between 35 and 85 miles on any given week on one of the six different bikes in his garage. “It gives me that sense of accomplishment.” “It makes me feel normal, it makes me feel rejuvenated,” he said. Through recovery from each chemotherapy treatment and surgery, cycling has helped him to regain his strength and stay healthy. And in the eight years since, it’s been cycling that Duran said has helped him do just that. Though Duran says his cancer diagnosis felt akin to getting hit with a big-rig truck, he said he immediately knew he needed to fight. “They finally gave me a CT scan, and they said, ‘You’ve got a golf-ball-sized mass in your pancreas,’” he recalled.
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