Photo Courtesy: Zoe Scantlebur/Facebook

By Ethan Ready

Ride in Support of TBI

Cyclist takes final step of recovery following traumatic brain injury by biking across Canada

Jul 28, 2021 | 6:11 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – She says it symbolizes the final step in her recovery.

Back in 2013, Zoe Scantlebury sustained a severe traumatic brain injury in a motor vehicle accident. For the nine days that followed, she was in a coma. She survived, and the next eight years were spent recovering, but working towards a lifelong dream of one day riding her bike from coast to coast.

Ever since she was young, she wanted to bike across Canada. That desire burned even more after hearing a story of her uncle biking from Toronto to Vancouver when she was 8-years old.

On July 1st, she dipped the front tire of her bike into the Pacific Ocean, marking the beginning of her cross-Canada bike ride in support of traumatic brain injuries.

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“It hasn’t been an easy process, but I’m getting there,” said Scantlebury of the entire journey she’s had to take to even get back on a bike again.

After her injury in 2013, doctors weren’t even sure if Scantlebury would ever talk or walk again. But she spent the next year in extensive rehabilitation. Over the next number of years, she relearned how to walk, went through extensive physiotherapy, and eventually got herself back to a state where she could bike again.

“Biking across Canada never seemed like a possibility anymore just because I lost quite a bit (…) I’ve always been pretty athletic, but after the accident I didn’t have the same balance. I couldn’t quite function as well independently,” she said in a Zoom call from Sainte Rose du Lac, Manitoba.

During her recovery, she came across Kevin Pearce’s Crash Reel and later his LoveYourBrain campaign.

The community, information, and direction towards yoga made available by this group was essential in helping Scantlebury find her way through her own recovery. As a way to give back, she is supporting this foundation as she bikes her way across Canada. She’s also raising funds through a GoFundMe page, with the goal of raising $10,000.

Funds donated to her GoFundMe will all be redirected to the LoveYourBrain foundation to help them support people impacted by traumatic brain injuries.