You may have heard of his dad before—Davis Phinney. As an Olympic Bronze medalist and Tour de France stage winner, he’s a cycling legend. He also has young-onset Parkinson’s disease (YOPD). In 2004 he established the Davis Phinney Foundation, dedicated to helping people with Parkinson’s live well.

Taylor Phinney, his son, is a promising cyclist in his own right and, at 22, has already been to the Olympics twice. He recently competed in Italy’s Tirreno-Adriatico stage race and was featured in a Wall Street Journal article. As the title gives away, “This Is Not a Story About Last Place,” Taylor didn’t fare well in the race itself. But he did finish.

What kept him going? “I would just think of my dad,” he says. “I knew that if my dad could be in my shoes for one day—if all he had to do was struggle on a bike for six hours, but be healthy and fully functional—he would be me on that day in a heartbeat.”

Read about Taylor’s grueling, but inspiring ride—and what it meant to his dad.