Day 22: Cheyenne WY to Laramie WY, 50 miles Date: June 22nd 2013 Wakeup today was very late – 7am. Breakfast was at 8am. The church members provided us very tasty breakfast. I loaded up today because we were going to have some climbing today. Ride dedications followed. Lot of us riders dedicated our rides […]
Today marks day 22 on my Texas 4000 journey, and I will begrudgingly admit that I have failed to update my blog regularly, and for that I apologize! I know many people back home have been curious about how my journey has been going thus far. Overall things are going pretty well. This last week […]
Day 21: Fort Collins CO to Cheyenne WY, 56 miles Date: June 21st 2013 Today was going to be a short ride, but it turned out to be a tiring one for some reason. Dan dropped me at the Beach’s house for breakfast. I had the best granola and yogurt today. Mrs.Jackie came and talked […]
Day 20: Boulder CO to Fort Collins CO, 43 miles Date: June 20th 2013 Wake up was at 6am. Breakfast was provided by our hosts. We had a guest at the ride dedication circle today. Chris, the lady who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last week. She has a great attitude and is going to […]
Day 19: Rest day at Boulder Date: June 19th 2013 I wanted to give my body some rest today. Even though there were things planned like hiking, sight seeing etc, I was hanging around at the host location pretty much the whole day. Woke up late at around 8.30am. Jen, our executive director, met with […]
Hello everyone! I guess to start, I haven’t been fully truthful with this blog. In fact, I’ve neglected this blog for months at a time because I was not sure how to reveal this truth to the internet…and then when I came to terms with it, I was unable to log into my profile. Anyways, […]
California has been a wonderful mix of challenging and breathtaking (Literally though, the wind has blown the slobber out of my mouth). Yesterday was tough. I climbed more yesterday than my any day previous by about 5000 ft of elevation. We spent much of the day exploring Highway 88 through the Eldorado National Forest. With […]
When you are doing the same thing day after day, it is the little things that make or brake you. For example… socks. Before the trip I never thought too much about which ones I wore. Now they’re everything. My left foot is slightly wider than my right, and I wouldn’t dream about riding my […]
Miles: 94 June 5th The morning after our rest day carried an energy among the team as we got ready to leave Houston. For the past four days we’ve effectively been heading the opposite direction of Alaska in order to visit MD Anderson and to receive the proclamation from city hall, and it effectively made […]
Day 18: Denver CO to Boulder CO, 38 miles Date: June 18th 2013 Today was the highlight of our trip until now (atleast for me). Wake up was at 5.30am. Sam (our host) took us to our base camp at Seth’s house. Breakfast was provided by the Snyder family and their friends. We had a […]
