Good Sports: The Vegan Cyclist

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- "9 days, 13 hours, 15 minutes." That's however agelong it took Tyler Pearce to motorcycle from Canada to Mexico.

"I wanted to archer 1 of the top escapade stories ever told successful existent time," Pearce said.

Earlier this period - the 38-year-old hubby and begetter of 2 from Bass Lake decided to embark connected his astir challenging travel to date.

"Can I determination my body, conscionable maine from Canada to Mexico with navigation and riding and the full happening and what would that mean to maine arsenic a person," Pearce said.

For the past 12 years, Pearce, amended known arsenic the vegan cyclist connected his fashionable YouTube and societal media pages.

He has traveled the satellite connected his bike. Racing, competing, and adjacent making documentary films on the way.

But he's ne'er done it alone.

"If I get done with doing thing awesome and I person a azygous selfie, what is that?" Pearce said.

For this adventure, Pearce mapped retired a astir 2,000 mile trek from Canada to Mexico hoping to go the fastest known quality to bash the thrust successful conscionable 9 days.

"The communicative had already been told I was conscionable surviving it," helium said.

To rise the stakes, Pearce documented his voyage utilizing unrecorded GPS, a go-pro camera and his telephone to station updates connected Instagram.

Even though I was unsocial for astir the time, I ne'er felt alone," helium said.

Burning arsenic galore arsenic 11,000 calories connected his 12-15 hr agelong motorcycle rides per day.

Random radical started showing up to substance his expedition.

"Finding my dot, watching my stories and past bringing maine a burrito truthful I'm conscionable riding successful the mediate of obscurity and there's idiosyncratic connected the broadside of the roadworthy with a burrito," helium said.

Like a modern time Forrest Gump, different cyclists started to articulation Pearce conscionable to drawback a glimpse of his record-setting pace.

"That affectional enactment is similar nutrient oregon water," helium said.

20 and a fractional vegan burritos later, with 100-thousand calories burned and tears streaming down his face, Pearce yet made it to the confederate border.

Pearce says thing tin apical that feeling of accomplishment.

You cannot bargain what I've experienced. The radical I've met, the things I've seen, the mode I felt," helium said.

The travel giving Pearce a consciousness of peace.

"Like I'm specified an mean joe and the astir mean feline has led the astir bonzer life. And what my beingness is close present is perfect," helium said.

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