TAMPA -- When Dexter Durrante pedaled into the Westshore Hyatt Place's parking lot on the back of a tandem bicycle Sunday, he was sweaty, hungry and exhausted, having just ridden 450 miles across Florida.
Durrante, 42, was one of 200 wounded veterans who took part in the Ride 2 Recovery, a six-day trek from Jacksonville to Tampa intended to speed the physical and mental recovery of injured veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.