Day 8: Rest day in Oklahoma City Date: June 8th 2013 Today’s wake up was at 10am! Its like winning a jackpot. At 10am, some of us headed to Al’s Bicycles to get our bikes fixed. Henry, who bought us dinner yesterday, worked on our bikes, for free! We cannot thank him enough. I had […]

Day 7 Rockies: Aardmore Ok to Oklahoma City Ok, 117 miles Date: June 7th 2013 Today was a long day but a good one. Wake up 5am. Packed and loaded trailers and ready for ride dedications at 5.45am. I knew today was going to be a difficult day. I had to keep myself motivated and […]

So I am on top of the world right now. It has been a rollercoaster of a day and but I just had a moment of clarity and I have to share it with you all. So I’ll spare you the details of this crazy day for the moment, but long story short, I realized […]

Day 7: Ardmore, OK to Oklahoma City What an epic day. We rode 125 miles today. That’s the farthest I’ve ever ridden before in my life. and you can only say that so many times. We woke up at 5 am, ate delicious pancakes, did ride dedications, the hakka, sunscreened-up, slathered on some chamois butter, […]

Today we had a rest day in Oklahoma City and we are staying in the dorms at Oklahoma Christian University. These dorms are amazing, we get our own beds and there are showers as well as washing machines and driers. I am sharing a room with brent and aaron and charlie. It was a rather […]

There are tough days. There are really tough days. It is very easy to get caught up in the little things, little things that always seem so important at the time. Day 5 of the ride proved to have it’s own challenges. Our team of 22 riders had somewhere around 20 flats on one stretch. […]

Miles: 58 miles June 2nd If there was any morning that felt bittersweet for me to wake-up to, it was today. I woke up bleary-eyed and caffeine desperate as usual and immediately felt a surge of excitement knowing that we were going to bike to a new city today. That feeling was quickly accompanied by […]

Miles: 70 miles June 1st Today was ATLAS, the official first day of the summer ride! It was a completely different feeling from Day Zero as on that day we were biking around Austin and even traveled back from our host for a final late night celebration, so it never felt like we “really” left […]

Miles: 35 miles May 31st This summer I’ve decided to blog everyday of the ride to serve as a way for me to remember the summer, document the Ozarks route, and to let the parents of those riding this route know what we are doing each day! Now, there are already blogs for each of […]

Day 6 It’s been a few days since I last blogged. Day 3 was pretty uneventful: Glen Rose to Mansfield. Day 4, we had a rest day, and day 5 I was SAG: Mansfield to Gainesville. Today, on the other hand, was quite eventful. Our ride was only 45 miles, but we finally left Texas! […]