Independent Banker - December 2023 - 68
OUT OF OFFICE
Tim Aiken: Riding forward
After only having cycled as a way to stay fit in college, the president
and CEO of $370 million-asset Union Bank in Middlebourne, W.Va.,
recently returned to the sport.
It was a friend I knew who was
cycling [during college]. At that
time, I was a really avid skier, and
I was just looking for something
to do in the off-season to stay
conditioned. I hated running,
and cycling sounded like a pretty
good thing.
Tim Aiken on the
Greenbrier River Trail,
a 78-mile rail trail in
West Virginia
Life got in the way and I got
away from it, but I redeveloped
an interest in it during the first
year of the pandemic ... I have a
really close friend [Jim] who's
a retired banker [and] a very
avid cyclist, and he was very
encouraging to me to get back
into it.
I've done a couple longdistance
trips over the course
of several days. The first one
we did, in 2021, we went from
Pittsburgh to Washington D.C.
The riding we do is mostly either
on rail trails or canal tow paths,
typically off the highway. ...
That was a seven-day trip, 340
miles total.
That was a really good
accomplishment. That was
really something I needed to
do in my life at that time. I had
just lost my wife to cancer, and
I realized during that time when
she was dying, I was living my life
so day-to-day that I didn't have
anything to look forward to. After
she passed, I said to Jim, " Let's
just do that trip next year. Let's do
that trip we've been talking about. "
That gave me something to look
forward to, to focus on. After that,
I had rediscovered cycling, and it
was a really good thing for me.
-Victoria Schutz
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