Burbank ultramarathoner-philanthropist Roy Wiegand raised more than $25,000 for DigDeep’s Navajo Water Project before being struck and killed by a truck.
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One sweltering day in Arizona, the thermometer on his bike read 130 degrees.
Roy Wiegand completed the last leg of a 1,100 mile bike ride from Los Angeles to Albuquerque on Friday afternoon. Wiegand’s ride, which concluded at the Botanic Garden with a welcoming committee of his wife and friends, has raised more than $13,000 for DigDeep to install water systems in homes on the Navajo Nation. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Another day, Wiegand found himself racing three dogs down a highway past the towering mesas of the Navajo Nation in western New Mexico.
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The 57-year-old Southern California resident biked 1,100 miles from Los Angeles to Albuquerque to raise money for Navajo Nation clean water projects.