It’s Spring Break! And my team successfully completed our spring break ride (whoo!). I’ll be honest, it was tough. Day one was 70+ (around 70. We got a tiny bit lost haha) miles with a heavy, heavy headwind and day two we climbed lots and lots of hills (around 1,500 ft in elevation, I think). […]

I want to fall in love in a way that makes absolutely no sense. I want to be in friendships that I would have never predicted to be in. I want to have dreams that I can replace with bigger ones that scare me, that I would have never been interested in before. The evolution […]

Lately, I’ve been trying to put so many thoughts together but they seem to be scattered everywhere. I’m so excited for this summer but nevertheless I am also scared; but I guess that’s a good thing, right? I once heard a quote that read something like “If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big […]

Dear Journal, Only 4 more days until spring break! Standing between me and then are two exams, two papers, a lab, and probably a homework I’m forgetting about. Something cool that happened this passed weekend was the Cyc class I went to. I went with a bunch of my friends and got a good 45 […]

It’s been awhile. I don’t know where I’ve been and why I haven’t blogged in so long, but I’m doing it now and that’s what counts (at least that’s what I tell myself). Things have been crazy here in T4K land. We’re one week away from our spring break ride and less than 3 months […]

How does it work? How do you ride your bike to Alaska? We only have 90 DAYS until we leave, so I wanted to answer popular questions I hear. I may have not participated in the ride yet, but I do know a fair bit about how this ride is going to work. I’m currently […]

The clock struck 5:25am and the sound of the alarms pierced my ears. Time to roll out of the covers, eat a bowl of oatmeal and lace-up my vibrant blue shoe laces as the green runners tag flopped to the side. Finally I zipped up my neon orange jacket over a jersey that means so […]

This past weekend, I got to help teach a clinic that introduced a lot of the team to one of my favorite topics- both in cycling and in life- momentum. On the bike, momentum is your friend. I tried to explain to my teammates the strategy for tackling rolling hills- pedal hard on the downhills- […]

Today is my FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes! I like to celebrate this day because I don’t want to think of today and be angry or sad. I celebrate a whole year of being healthy while having diabetes. Yes, some days are harder than others. Yes, it has been difficult […]

I’m not going to say that Texas 4000 is the best organization ever, the best idea ever, the best group of people, the best anything. But it is a damn good organization, an inspired (and hopefully inspiring) idea, and a lovely group of people whom I’m glad to know – though, as I was told […]