{"id":103031,"date":"2014-05-08T17:51:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T20:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=103031"},"modified":"2016-02-03T21:35:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:35:37","slug":"lunchbox-interview-gilles-francoeur-velo-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-gilles-francoeur-velo-tour","title":{"rendered":"The Lunchbox: Interview with Gilles Francoeur on his &#8220;V\u00e9lotour&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-velotour.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"103033\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-gilles-francoeur-velo-tour\/attachment\/lunchbox-velotour\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-velotour.png\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LunchBox-velotour\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-velotour.png\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-103033\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-velotour.png\" alt=\"LunchBox-velotour\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-velotour.png 300w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-velotour-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Some people are all heart &#8212; or maybe all <em>lungs<\/em>. <strong>Gilles Francoeur<\/strong> suffered a serious injury 17 years ago, but he always told himself that he would get back on his bike and take to the road in his personal challenge of riding around the entire province.<\/p>\n<p>Gilles is about to set off on his &#8220;<em>v\u00e9lotour<\/em>&#8220;, a <strong>1500+ km\u00a0bike ride<\/strong> around the province, and he&#8217;s raising money for <a title=\"The New Brunswick Lung Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nb.lung.ca\/\">the NB Lung Association<\/a>. We talked about the passion of the cycle, what it takes to ride for 5-7 hours a day, and how he&#8217;s going to be taking the world with him. (The interview itself begins at 35:46.)<\/p>\n<p>You can follow his journey through daily uploads and interact with Gilles at <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/gillesvelotour.ca\/\">his web site<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5157\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5157','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=103031-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are all heart &#8212; or maybe all lungs. Gilles Francoeur suffered a serious injury 17 years ago, but he always told himself that he would get back on his bike and take to the road in his personal challenge of riding around the entire province.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5158\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5158','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=103031-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20140508%20-%20Interview%20-%20Gilles%20Frankcoeur.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><p><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-gilles-francoeur-velo-tour\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2134,1946,494,1772,1139,1289,2133],"class_list":["post-103031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-bike","tag-charity","tag-event","tag-health","tag-nb-lung","tag-summer","tag-velotour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LunchBox.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238981,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103031\/revisions\/3238981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}