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brazoscyclists September 8, 2014

Instead Of Surgery, Man Pedals Off The Pounds : NPR

An older story from NPR, but it’s a reminder that #CrossIsComing

 

Ernest Gagnon weighed 570 pounds before he decided to lose weight by taking up cyclocross racing. Forgoing surgery, Gagnon lost more than 200 pounds and recently competed in his first cyclocross race.

Courtesy of Ernest Gagnon

Courtesy of Ernest Gagnon

A lot of Americans are struggling to lose a whole lot of weight, and they try all kinds of crazy things.

Ernest Gagnon — a man from Billerica, Mass. — decided to shed pounds by getting into the often intense, high-adrenaline sport of cyclocross

via Instead Of Surgery, Man Pedals Off The Pounds : NPR.

Filed Under: fitness, Just For Fun Tagged With: cyclocross

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