A dad has completed a year-long cycling challenge and clocked over 20,000 minutes on his bike after finding out he may need a kidney transplant.
Peter Garrod decided to set himself the goal of cycling 20,222 minutes in 2022 after being told his kidney function was rapidly declining. The father-of-three from County Durham completed the challenge after initially starting with 55 minutes on his bike every day.
Peter was born with two conditions which damaged his kidneys at birth, one, called omphalocele, meant that some of his internal organs were developed outside of his body. Another issue, known as vesicoureteral reflux meant his urine travelled the wrong way, from the bladder back to the kidney. Surgery and medication were able to resolve the issues, but scarring had left him with only 60 per cent kidney function.
