Cycling Superheroes
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ho needs to don a cape and leap tall buildings when you have a bicycle? Betsy Albright and her cycling team, St. Simons Spinners, show that superheroes ride bikes too. On October 13-14, they’ll be participating in Bike MS: PGA TOUR Cycle to the Shore 2018 in Ponte Vedra, Florida. As promotions for Bike MS events state, “It’s more than a ride,” and they 42
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could use your support to help complete their mission, which goes far beyond completing the pedaling trek along the Florida coast. St. Simons Elementary School teacher Betsy Albright was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2007. She says, “I decided to keep a positive outlook and adopted the saying, ‘I might have MS, but MS doesn’t have me.’” While maybe not a superpower, this is not an easy feat, and anyone who knows Betsy also knows
that she does it amazingly well. Betsy says that in those first years after her diagnosis she began participating in several MS fundraising events. Then something completely unexpected occurred. In 2010, Betsy’s husband, Chad, a teacher and coach at Glynn Academy, was also diagnosed with MS. Instead of letting Chad’s diagnosis knock the wind out of their sails, Betsy said, “This created an even greater desire for us to raise (continues)
