PB president Barrie Shepley calls Stewart Barclay as the ultimatevolunteer.  Barclay is the key man behind the scenes who runs the  C3Kinetico Kids of Steel Triathlon and the fall Kinetico Run Festival.  Thissummer, the amazing volunteer decided to help out three local cyclists raisefunds for ALS by driving a motor-home to assist them on a cross Canada bikeride.  "The three guys are great friends of mine and when they asked me tohelp their charitable ride, I couldn't say no" said Barclay.

John MacKay, Ralph Ferguson and Garry Cuff love to ski, ride their bikes and live life to the fullest. The three men had always wondered ifthey were fit enough to ride their bikes across Canada and finally decidedto take up the challenge this summer in memory of their great friend and skicoach Bob MacKenzie.  MacKenzie past away from ALS, but not before he had along-courageous fight. As the disease progressed, MacKenzie went fromcoaching on skis, to coaching in a snowmobile, and finally in the latestages of the disease, sitting in the Caledon Ski Club and reviewing videofootage of the skiers. "Bob was truly an amazing man who dealt with hisphysical disabilities with courage and class" said Caledon's StewartBarclay.

When MacKay, Ferguson and Cuff reviewed their bucket-list of life's goals, they decided to ride across Canada on their bikes to raise funds forthe ALS.   MacKay read a book last year called YOUNGER NEXT YEAR and the 71year old decided "why not" ride across Canada.  After months of planning thetrio who are 71 (MacKay), 57 (Ferguson) and 70 (Cuff) years of age, flew toVancouver and started their ride on May 29th.   The trio have had variousfriends driving a motor-coach along the entire course, providing food and aplace to sleep each night. "We knew Canada was hilly, but we didn't realizehow much climbing we would be doing over the entire ride" said MacKay."Before we are done we will have climbed over 100 000 vertical feet" said MacKay. Fortunately for the trio, they did many of their training kilometers in hilly Caledon and the surrounding area.   The men have been averaging 150-200km per day in memory of their former ski-coach/friend.

"Canada is so huge, and so incredibly beautiful, that we have beenblessed to have the health, time and support to do this fund-raising ride"said MacKay.  At nearly 200 total years, the trio have many fond-memories ofthe trip that will end on Friday in Lunenberg Nova Scotia.  "Seeing theTerry Fox Memorial along the way and knowing that the great Rick Hansen hasgone across this country in a wheel-chair, taught us that anything ispossible" said MacKay.  The group were unanimous at how special anopportunity the ride has been and how thankful they are to the many familymembers, drivers and donors who have helped them get across the country.Anyone who wants to make a small donation to this incredible effort can goto their website at http://www.jgmackay.ca/Site/CanadaTrek.html