Going uphill, Todd admitted, was difficult. The people met my father at practice rides. After his father's diagnosis, the event took on new meaning. The disease, which attacks the nervous system, strikes people from 16 to 60. Symptoms vary from numbness in the limbs to paralysis or loss of vision.
Medication can ease some symptoms and slow the advance of the disease, but there is no cure.
Sepulveda Commercial Development in Orange made a donation and served as the team's pit crew. Team members held bake sales and raffles, donating products such as exercise equipment, sunglasses and fishing poles, and services such as haircuts. The size of the team kept growing, Todd said. His brothers, Blake and Bradley, joined, along with riders from as far away as Mexico City. What she found most impressive was the challenges team members overcame.