Iris Klein of Germany is bicycling about 70 miles a day on Route 66 to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer research charity. On Saturday, she made a stop in Amarillo, according to a story in the Amarillo Globe-News.
She quit her day job as a marketing manager in Colon to raise awareness and money for breast cancer treatment and research after cancer claimed the life of a friend who lived in Chicago.
“I just really hope I can inspire one or two people,” she said.
Wearing a black bike outfit along with pink socks, pink shoelaces and a pink water bottle, she’s been bicycling across Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles since Sept. 13 in a movement she’s named “Bike 4 the Cure.”
“My legs, I didn’t even know they could get that color,” she said, showing off her burn line.
She’s already gone through about five bottles of sunscreen.
She’s raising about $10,000 for Ellen for the Cure, talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres’ charity, which is a subsidiary of the Komen fund. Klein started in Chicago on Sept. 13 and anticipates being in Los Angeles on Oct. 26.
Klein has posted a video diary just about every day. Here YouTube channel is here. Here’s one of the diary entries in Missouri: