Tuesday was my very first 20-mile ride in preparation for Texas 4000. Besides for skills clinic where we did an 8-mile test ride, I don’t think I’ve rode a bike in a couple of years. I can definitely say it wasn’t easy, but I realized that this isn’t supposed to be easy. Fighting cancer isn’t […]
Personally, I think asking for money sucks. Its awkward and uncomfortable and makes me feel like that annoying gnat that just won’t leave you the hell alone. But at the end of the day, there’s only so many distant cousins and great uncles I can ask to donate before it starts becoming real that I […]
What a week it has been for everyone on Texas 4000. It started off this weekend bright and early near our University intramural fields where we got together at the crack of dawn to start prepping for our first ever ride. Before we could get going around Shoal Creek we had to first go […]
When I was about two years old, I was a cow for Halloween. I distinctly remember (or maybe I don’t, but I’ve got picture evidence) walking around with my twin sister as the most adorable twin cows on the block. Back in the day, my grandma always made my Halloween costumes. Whether I wanted to be a […]
Today to prepare us for our training weekend coming up we spent four hours cleaning up and organizing two of the three route trailers. Oh the task we had at hand. For the first hour or two as we started to take everything out of the trailers and storage unit I couldn’t help but be […]
Two weeks ago I went into Jack and Adams to be fitted for my bike. It was a moment I had been looking forward to all summer and it was finally here. My partner in this ride is a 2015 Felt Z85 bike with 22 speeds and a Shimano 105 groupset. Her name is Joy. […]
So the first thing many of my co-riders did when they got into Texas 4000 was to create a Facebook event page to promote their journey in fighting cancer. As the Facebook invites started to come in I immediately was filled with stress. I knew this was a great way to get our mission out […]
This past week marked some major steps for our team and our Journey through Texas 4000. Last Monday the whole team was on edge knowing that by the end of those two hours we would be given a major decision that would shape our Journey to Alaska. Emotions were flowing like no previous meeting we […]
At our meeting last Monday my team and I had so many things going on for us. It had been a meeting I was nervous about and had been looking forward to since the summer. Routes were going to be announced and I was so psyched to find out where I would carry out the […]
Tonight, our team learned about which of the three routes we will be on to Alaska. I can proudly say that I will be embarking on the Ozarks route, with some of the closest people I love. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely love my team. But it just seems that everyone that was supposed […]
