LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Hundreds of people will bike to beat cancer Saturday.
Bike to Beat Cancer begins Saturday morning at the Norton Cancer Institute Brownsboro. Rides go from 5 to 100 miles in the 14th year of the event.
John Mackey, a longtime volunteer for the event, has ridden in honor of family and friends lost to cancer for the past 12 years.
This year, Mackey is riding for a different purpose. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year and will undergo surgery later this month.
He’s now riding as a cancer patient but plans on riding in the future as a survivor.
“This, for me, is the one community event that I’m totally sold out to,” Mackey said. “Cancer is one of those things that’s not a respecter of people. It’s not a respecter of time, of space, of anything.”
The event has raised more than $5 million for Norton …