We had our first ride in rain yesterday. It was around a 35-mile ride out to Buda. We split into groups of 4 and I rode with Daniel, DoSoon and Nick M, which means I was the only girl in my group, an anomaly for our team. I’ve been for the most part a commuter […]

Who knew rain and bikes could go together so beautifully? It may seem illogical: metal bike…+water…= rusty gears and a handful of repairs? Hmm. Well let me explain: This morning, my team and I rode in the rain for the first time. Up hills we went. It was wet, there were sloughs of mud shooting […]

Yesterday evening, I arrived home after a long day with still more studying to come. As I trudged to my front door carrying a hefty laptop, a bag of clothes from my presentation, and a mind weighted with thoughts, I slowed. There, at the top of the flight of stairs leading up to my door […]

I have been horrible at updating my blog. A number of times I have sat down and tried to write one and been unable to share all of the incredible Texas 4000 things that have happened in the past months as well as the little moments of amazing that happen each and every day with […]

With all the journals circulating about this past weekend, I’m sure all of my teammates have already briefed you on the fact that we had a training camp last weekend. It was amazing, an astounding bonding experience with the team, and a transformation from the attitude of just, “this so so awesome!” to the knowledge […]

There have been so many moments over the past month when I was full of words to share. Experiences I cannot fully describe filled my heart and mind. After each experience I intended to sit down and write all about what I was feeling to try to give you an idea of what it was […]

‘i urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘if this isn’t nice, i don’t know what is.’’ — kurt vonnegut it’s about 4 in the morning and i’ve had the ‘new blog’ tab open all evening and i’m finally getting to it. i like […]

— we don’t always see eye to eye but we see how the time’s flying by and we live with a daunting suspicion that it might not go into remission so against all the odds we’re competing though we don’t know for sure what we’re reading in the old testament we’d get fire and torment […]

If you’ve read any of the recent journals you know that training camp was this past weekend. What you probably don’t know is that Sunday was also my 23rd birthday. When I first found out that training camp was going to coincide with my bday I was a little disappointed. It meant that I couldn’t […]

So, this last weekend was our training camp, and it was… hard! I considered it a proud victory when on Saturday I fell off my bike only three times. My shoulders hurt, my quads hurt, and my butt hurt. On Sunday, I had a really difficult time – three miles into the ride, my left […]