Many people take a trip when they retire, which is what Randy Wussler is going to do next month.
He won’t be alone. His wife, Tish, 57, will drive ahead in their van with extra supplies and bicycles. The plan is for them to meet up most nights, with Tish Wussler taking a few side trips to visit friends when her husband is in the “middle-of-nowhere” portions of the route.. As of Monday, $10,691 was raised, mostly from former co-workers and family. The amount includes $2,000 the couple put in plus another $2,000 in matching funds.
Wussler said he and his wife had no idea their daughter, adopted at birth, had a genetic background that could lead to her developing diabetes as an infant. She also has a biological half-sister who was diagnosed with it as an adult, he said. “It has not been easy for , but she’s getting it ... she is accepting her disease,” Tish Wussler said.
“As a child, it is kind of difficult to process because you feel different and alienated from everyone else,” Jarnagin said. “No one likes to feel like the odd one out.” “I was never an athlete,” Wussler said. “I played sports in junior high. As an adult, my wife and I did a lot of hiking.”“I had a really high-stress job running a company,” Wussler said. “I thought it was my dream job, but one month in, it was a nightmare. I put on weight and was stressed.”
“We have so many great hills,” he said about his bicycle rides around the Westwood neighborhood where the family has lived since 1992. “That’s where my endurance was built up.”“I hate running,” he said. “But I did 15 minutes out and back. ... That’s really when I got into intense type of exercise. Now I love running and marathons, though I do not do as much as I used to due to wear and tear on my body.”“I’ve done it on my own, for better or worse, with no serious injuries,” he said.