A nine-year-old from North Carolina just finished an 83-day bike ride that made him the youngest person ever to ride coast-to-coast and it was all for a good cause.
CJ Burford, a fourth grader, said God called on him to ride for the National Children’s Cancer Society and he promised he was going to ride the 2,700 miles.
“I promised that I would do every single millimeter of it,” CJ said. “God helped me do this. He inspired me to do this.”
CJ helped raise more than $100,000 for the charity.
“He’s happy, he’s healthy. He’s very lucky and fortunate in life. And he wants to give back. And that’s just an amazing inspiration for anyone,” said Farrah Walleck of the National Children’s Cancer Society.
He figured out what many adults still haven’t, how to do what you love every day for a good cause.
“I dipped my back wheel in the Pacific, and I’m about to dip my front wheel in the Atlantic,” CJ said.
And he has a little advice.
“If you want to do this and you want advice, make sure you have support.”
And he has it. From his mother and the rest of his family, all seven of them spending every night in an RV.
The previous record for the youngest child to travel cross-country on a bike was 11 years old.