It’s been almost a year since The Ride of a Lifetime ended in tragedy. Daniel’s wife, Michelle Olivier, and children Alex and Sonia, estimate that with funds raised in the early days of the Ride and at events organized since then, they’re nearly halfway to Daniel’s original goal of $500,000 for diabetes research. But let’s not stop there.
Reader’s Digest is supporting their efforts. Check out our new online community, and sign up to join the Reader’s Digest team at a TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes on June 14 in either Montreal or Toronto. Sign up now and get a free T-shirt. Michelle, Alex and Sonia will be participating in the Montreal walk and would love to see you there!
A fatal road accident has taken the life of Daniel Hurtubise and a cycling companion and injured Hurtubise’s two children as they rode across Canada yesterday, in their bid to raise money for diabetes research.
The accident occurred Sunday afternoon just east of Virden, Manitoba when a car struck the four cyclists as they rode along the Trans-Canada Highway about 300 km west of Winnipeg.
Hurtubise and Robert Carrier, 45, from Kelowna, B.C. were both killed. Hurtubise’s son Alex, 19, and daughter Sonia, 16, were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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Départ d’Indian Head ce matin, tout le monde est encore un peu fatigué de la dure journée de la veille. Au moins, le soleil est de la partie aujourd’hui! En début d’après-midi, chaque cycliste est concentré sur son odomètre à l’attente de 2000 kilomètres parcourus depuis le départ de Vancouver. Pour l’occasion, on a même la chance d’aller célébrer au restaurant et de se féliciter l’un et l’autre. Pour une dernière journée, nous pédalons sur le sol de la Saskatchewan. Demain, nous entrerons au Manitoba! D’ailleurs, il se peut que nous ayons de la difficultée à communiquer avec vous pour les prochains jours faute de signal de réseau. De plus, on a même eu la chance de recevoir des dons de gens qui avaient entendu nos entrevus à la radio. Merci beaucoup et continuez à nous supporter.
This morning we left from Indian Head, everyone was still a bit tired from the previous rainy day. The sun is shinning it’s a beautifull day. Each cyclist is looking at their odometer and cannot believe that we have coverred 2,000km since the launch in Vancouver. Tonight we have celebrated that special occasion around a good table at a very nice restaurant in Moosomin. Tomorow we will enter in Manitoba. By the way we might not be able to communicate with you for a few days because of lack of internet signal. We received donations from people who heard our interview on the radio. Thanks and please keep on supporting our cause…
Sonia
Day 13, Swift Current to Moose Jaw 177km. For some unknowed reason I had a very bad day with my diabetes, during the whole day I could not transform my carbohydrates and protein to energie. The whole day I had a terrible headache, I was weak and could not think straight. Alex, Sonia Robert and François were very concerned, everyone was very quit and did not know what to do, I told them that despite the situation the day had to go on. A bad day for a diabetic trying to control his/her energy is much worst than riding 177km… Ask any type 1 diabetic and they will all agree with me… Day 14, Moose Jaw to Indian Head 150km in driving rain with 30km/h wind gusts, it was an interesting day, I am so proud of Sonia and Alex they are just fantastic. Mediawise Elise our PR person on board did a great job, 6:45am I was interview live via cell phone at Rock Detente 107,3 in Mtl, than 8:45am again live via cell phone at Radio Canada and again at 13:15pm in Regina live on the air at Big Dog 92,7 Country music, Sonia, Alex and I had a great time. Tonight in Indian Head laundry, and RV clean up… Spagetti meat ball sauce.
Thanks for your suppor
Dan
Il est 19h15, nous sommes installés dans le Eagle Valley Park Campground, près de la Trans Canadienne à Maple Creek. Encore une fois, il n’y a pas eu de frais pour le site avec service complet pour le VR, un gros merci à la propriétaire qui était très sympathique. Effectivement, nous n’avons pas arrêté à Walsh étant donné que le vent d’ouest nous gardait toujours à une vitesse près de 40km/h. Nous avons même eu le plaisir d’avoir quelques pointes à 60km/h. Ce matin, nous avons quitté Brooks, donc nous avons parcouru une distance de 200km aujourd’hui. Nous avons également été chanceux, car la pluie était de la partie à environ 100km du point de départ mais heureusement, le VR n’était pas très loin et nous n’avons reçu que quelques gouttes avant d’arrêter pour le dîner.
It is 7:15pm, we are staying at the Eagle Valley Park Campground for the night near the Trans Canada HW, in Maple Creek Saskatchewan. Again didn’t have to pay for the campsite, thanks to the owner who was very friendly. Today, we’ve traveled 200km, 40km more than what we wore supposed to do. We had the pleasure to ride the whole day at aroud 40km /h and even had peaks at 60km/h for a fair distance. This am we had rain for about 15min fortunately it was time to stop for lunch and the RV was near by, so we stayed dry… Today we entered Saskatchewan, It is just amaising to think that we have already traveled to BC, Alb and now Sk… abour 1,500km since we launched Ride of a Lifetime.
Alex
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