More than four decades after Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope captured a nation, his brother is leading a small group of cyclists across Canada to raise money for cancer awareness and research.

The group of eight will set out from Terry Fox Plaza in downtown Vancouver on Monday morning, and over the next month, they will ride roughly 220 kilometres a day to reach St. John’s, N.L., on July 10.

Darrell Fox tells 1130 NewsRadio it’s going to be tough, but he’s up for the challenge.

“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can,” Fox chuckled. “I’m not a spring chicken anymore. Youth is not an ally. But I was in a stinky Ford van in 1980 as a third member of the Marathon of Hope, and I witnessed Terry run a marathon every day on an artificial leg for 93 days.”

“I think Terry is going to be with

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