“IT WAS very difficult,” said Jane Tomlinson yesterday. Some of us might use that phrase to describe getting out of bed on a Monday morning, but she was referring to the epic 4,200-mile (6,760 km) ride across the US that she had just completed. Her website describes it as “the greatest endurance feat ever to be attempted by someone with terminal cancer”, and it is difficult to dispute the claim. On Wednesday her husband Mike had grave fears that his 42-year-old wife was too ill to complete the final leg to New York. But somehow she found the energy to...