By WNYC Studios
Published March 24, 2023 9:00am
Cat Jaffee didn’t necessarily think of herself as someone who loved being alone. But then, the pandemic hit. And she got diagnosed with cancer. Actually, those two things happened on the exact same day, at the exact same hour. In the shadow of that nightmarish timing, Cat found her way to a sport that celebrated the solitude that was forced on her, and taught her how to not only embrace self-reliance, but to love it.Â
This sport is called competitive bikepacking. And in these competitions, riders have to bring everything they need to complete epic bike rid...