CHOCOLATE MILK. The greatest part of my cycling diet so far is chocolate milk as my recovery drink. This drink used to cause great anguish and stomach issues when I was a mere 1st grader. But now… the world is my oyster and chocolate milk is my friend. Hallelujah.

Austin Marathon At 5:30 AM, my alarm goes off and I wake up to get ready to volunteer at the Austin Marathon with my awesome team. Waking up early in the morning definitely required lot of mental effort but at the end of the day I was glad that I volunteered. This was my first […]

Today I ran the Austin Half Marathon. 13.1 miles. Can you believe that? Cause I really can’t. 13.1? How did I do that? I can remember a time not long ago that running 1 mile was quite enough! Completing the race further proves the power of what you can do when you set your mind […]

This morning I volunteered at the Austin Marathon with a lot of my fellow 2011 and 2012ers. It was a lot of fun even though I had to wake up at 5:30. We held up banners, got free Livestrong t-shirts, and yelled words of encouragement to all the runners as they passed by. We saw […]

Waking up this morning at 6:00 a.m. after only three hours of sleep (due to homework I might add) is not something I normally look forward to. But, when my alarm clock went off and I had to force myself out of bed, the only thing motivating me to do so was that I knew […]

I LOVED volunteering at the Austin Marathon this morning. We basically stood on the sidelines for 2 hours and cheered on runners/walkers in the half and full marathon. It was amazing. I’m going to convert this morning’s experience into numbered points for easier reading. 1. 5:30am doesn’t feel as early as it should anymore. I’ve […]

I went on a 45 mile ride today and it was awesome. Although we were not expecting it to rain, once we were about 15 minutes into the ride, it started drizzling and well pretty much we were really wet the rest of the ride. It was pretty gross/funny that every time I would have […]

To see this post and more with pictures, check out www.journeyforalifetime.tumblr.com! I completed my longest ride today – 45 miles. In the rain. The morning started off like a normal Saturday morning. My alarm goes off (and then I press snooze a few times before actually getting up). I walk out onto my balcony to […]

Today was by far the dirtiest I have ever been after riding a road bike. Some of us actually looked like we had been mountain biking on a muddy trail. None of us expected any precipitation at all but in turn got a hazy misty mix throughout the ride. The very wet ride was slightly […]

Wednesday night, Taylor Foreman and I joined some T4K riders and other supporters of Mike Thompson for his Moonlight run on Town Lake. We met up at RunTex and had some chips and salsa and then we set out for our 5 mile trek! I personally like running at night, so I jumped at the […]