After her three children died, 85-year-old Mavis Paterson cycled 1,000 miles around Scotland

Cycling has become more than a habit for “Granny Mave,” as Mavis Paterson is known. It has become essential for her very being, her very reason for living after all three of her adult children passed

away within four years of each other – Sandy in 2012, Katie in 2013 and Bob in 2016. It was in memory of her children that the 85-year-old grandmother set out on her latest endurance challenge in May, cycling 1,000 miles around Scotland, beginning from the Mull of Galloway, before heading north, tracing the outline of the country until she reached the Mull of Galloway again. “If I didn’t have my bicycle, and this is terrible to say, I don’t think I would want to live,” she told CNN Sport.

“I hope I don’t have to go off my bicycle,” Patterson recalls thinking when cycling over the steepest hill on her ride. “But I didn’t. I managed to get the top. I huffed and puffed and people say: ‘Why don’t you get an electric bike?’ And I say: ‘Well, no, no, I don’t want a bike that does all the work.’ I want to do the work on the hills, so that when I get to the top, I say: ‘Hey, I did that.

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