To Help Kids With Cancer, They Pedaled On; Va. Tech Students Ride to Md. to Raise Money for Camp

Chris Henry and seven friends hopped on their bicycles at Virginia Tech on Saturday morning to go for a spin. Twenty-three and a half hours and 291 miles later, they climbed off.

The cyclists rode from Blacksburg, Va., to Laytonsville, near Gaithersburg, without sleep in a grueling trip to raise money for Camp Friendship, a nonprofit summer camp for children with cancer that is struggling financially.

Henry hatched the plan after getting to know one of the campers during the past year, a Centreville resident whose rare form of cancer was diagnosed when he was 3. Doctors gave…