Day 14 of the ride. Brookhaven, MS to Vicksburg, MS. The team was set to embark on our first pre-challenge qualifying time trial of 120 miles in 9 hours. As support and gear for the day I knew coming into the day that I had to be on my game the entire time to make […]

Day 15: Cloudy with a Chance of Cyclists Have you ever looked up at the sky and anthropomorphized the clouds? Usually a ceiling or tall building blocks that view. Cycling to the Philmont Scout Ranch with just open sky let me take six hours to do just that. With every hill we climbed – a […]

I’d be lying to you if I said the last few days have been easy. As you may have noticed, I’ve fallen behind on my blogs yet again but this time my tardiness is more a result of mounting fatigue than a lack of Internet access. We have stayed in some pretty dire places over […]

Apologies to all of my supporters for not keeping people up to date! We are now on day 12, and have completed over 650 miles of riding. We rode into Amarillo, TX yesterday from Pampa, TX traveling 67 miles! After eating a quick dinner, we were able to visit Palo Duro Canyon as a team. […]

I should start by apologizing for the tardiness of this post, but I have a pretty good excuse. After leaving Santa Fe, our team climbed into the southernmost portion of the Rocky Mountains and wound up at Vallecitos Mountain Ranch (VMR), a beautiful place. Since then, however, we’ve been off the grid and without any […]

Colorado is quickly becoming one of my favorite states, so I was very excited to be staying in Pagosa Springs last night. But after hardly more than 12 hours in the Colorful State, we quickly returned to New Mexico this morning, en route to the town of Farmington. We rode exactly 100 miles from Pagosa […]

Day 11: Learning From Nature Tonight we rest at one of our Sierra teammate’s house: the home of Grace Biggs and her awesome family. I saw a poignant reminder posted on one of the bathroom mirrors as I cleaned up after a 67-mile ride into the headwinds to Amarillo, TX. The quote ran as follows: […]

It didn’t cross my mind that I may get to visit your Mausoleum when I was chosen for the Ozarks route. But once I put two and two together I knew I had to make it happen. I made a decision when you passed that has been on my mind for the past three years. […]

Today was the Ozarks route first true century. Coming into it I know it wasn’t going to be easy, we had a rough day before and we were looking at 93 degrees with no cloud cover. With little sleep we awoke for our ride dedication circle. For myself and most of our route, Lake Charles […]

Today we bikes into Louisiana and into Lake Charles for the first time ever. We were faced with 95 miles of costal highways to cover the distance. For me it was my first support and gear day where I was not on the bike. Given our distance and our allotted time I knew today was […]