Hello loyal followers out there! Happy holidays ”“ I hope as you are reading this you are in good health and getting to spent time with your friends and family this season. I’ve been home since mid December in Albuquerque, and had a great Christmas with the Scotts and Shoemakers. This holiday season I have […]

In an attempt to jump start our winter fundraising Adam and I went panhandling a few weeks ago. Roaming the streets of downtown Austin I’m always surprised by the generosity of complete strangers, some share their stories with cancer and others just make a donation and continue on their commute probably not realizing how much […]

Ladera Norte is spanish for “North Slope”. Hahaha, may I suggest a rename? How about Ladera el Diablo? Let me explain: there is a street in Austin called Ladera Norte, and for the past two months or so, my teammates have been posting on Facebook things like, “I beasted Ladera today” and “Conquered Ladera Norte […]

It’s crazy to think I was accepted to Texas 4000 over a year ago. Here’s the last year in a nutshell. – Meetings early on can best be described as incredibly awkward. We had about the whole 2010 team, who were already a very tight-knit group, and half the 2011 team, most of whom didn’t […]

I got my cool Felt bike about a month ago now. It still remains nameless, it is really hard to find a name for perfection :P. I had never been on a road bike before so it was quite an experience at training camp! Even since training camp I’ve gotten a lot better at cycling. […]

During the month of November the team is breaking records to break cancer! It’s really awesome and fun. Radio Shack donated a camera and we just record Texas 4000 breaking records in the name of breaking cancer. All in the name of raising cancer awareness 🙂 http://urdb.org/breakcancer visit this website to checkout some awesome record […]

The weekend of Nov 13/14th we had training camp in Fayetteville, Texas (population 261!!). The first weekend in Texas where it actually felt like fall! This is where some state champs in cycling took time out of their lives to teach (some of us) how to ride our super cool bikes we just got! I […]

Earlier this year in August, LIVESTRONG announced its three-year title partnership with Texas 4000! Everyone on the team is super excited. This partnership will strengthen our reputation and will help us raise more funds. So our official team name is the 2011 LIVESTRONG Texas 4000 Ride. I have attached a press release from earlier this […]

Training camp happened a couple of weekends ago and went amazingly well. The journey began the week before camp, with myself and some of the leadership committee scrambling about last minute trying to prepare the trailer and such to haul bikes to Fayetteville and back. I personally spent a good hour or so in the […]

[This first paragraph is the same as my other blog entry from today] I’m writing two blogs today. They both have the same theme- and that is how Texas 4000 is changing the way I see the tougher stuff in my life. This one is about falling/failing, the other (part I) about loss. As always, […]