BC para-cyclist and paralympic hopeful Tristen Chernove is featured in this month’s Pacific Coastal Airlines Soar magazine.
Diagnosed in 2009 with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, which was affecting his lower legs. CMT, a little-known hereditary disorder that affects the nervous system, produces muscular dystrophy symptoms. Undeterred, Chernove threw himself into cycling as a way to combat the disease:
“I wanted to find out how my body would respond to using the affected part of it as much as possible, as intensely as possible and as hard as possible. ”
Since then, Chernove has broken into competitive cycling in a big way. He earned silver and bronze at this year’s Canadian Track Championships–his very first time racing on the track. He now has his eye on a spot on Team Canada for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, though he may fastback his Paralympic dreams as he trains with Cycling Canada’s NextGen Olympic training program.
Read more about Chernove’s journey to the podium, and his work raising money for research, treatment and eventually a cure for hereditary neuropathies through the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation, in Soar Magazine.
