April 6, 2010 – The Cross Canada Cardio Challenge is a cross-Canada cycling initiative by Brett Taylor, Duane Vaughan, and Steve Taylor with the aim of generating enthusiasm for physical activity, promoting the benefits of exercise in preventing and minimizing disability and death from cardiovascular disease, while also highlighting and supporting the work of the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The trio will travel a 10,000 km route and spend May to August 2010 crossing this great country of ours. After departing from Vancouver, traversing two mountain ranges, breezing through countless prairie fields, getting very acquainted with the scrub forests of Northern Ontario, experiencing Quebec’s charms, zig zagging through the ever hospitable Maritime Provinces, and sailing across to Newfoundland, Brett, Duane and Steve will arrive in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Check out Cardio Challenge in the News. There are half dozen media pieces including a TV interview. In the next few days we will upload an 18 minute educational presentation we did at the Heart and Stroke Hypertension Collaborative 2010 in association with the Ontario Hypertension Society (they do the CHEP guidelines) where the boys rode into the conference hall on their bikes.

Commit to Active Living – share your exercise pledge on-line to encourage others to become physically active and if you’re one of the others that’s even better.

Make a charitable donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation to support their efforts to eliminate trans-fats, reduce salt in processed foods, identify and label heart healthy groceries, as well as provide patient educational tools and supplies, and fund cutting edge research across the country.

Join us for our official launch on Sunday, April 18th from 1-4PM at the Beamsville Medical Centre FHT. Come and meet the riders and check out their equipment.

Go to www.crosscanadacardiochallenge.com for more details.