Johansen has taken his final bike ride
During three glorious months in Florida last winter, Trudy and Cole Johansen put 463 miles on their bikes and then 1,008 miles more over the summer when they returned home to Cedar Rapids.
Their final ride in August, right before Cole's surgery for lung cancer, was on their favorite wooded trail south of town to Ely.
“It's very hard for me to believe that I will never get to ride bikes with him again,” Trudy wrote to friends two weeks ago. “Our 1,000 miles last August will be our last.”
On Jan. 13, as the couple prepared to pack bags for their fourth trip to Florida, doctors told them that the cancer had not been stopped as first thought but instead had spread throughout his body.
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