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About: So my life in a nutshell...

If it is an activity outside, count me in! I have been moutain biking for over 5 years and road cycling for about 3. I can make a killer brisket and a rack of ribs that are fall off the bone tender. I am currently getting my masters in electrical engineering and I work as a prosthetics research and development engineer for a GAIT and biomechanics laboratory in San Antonio. So I figure I would do this crazy ride across America while Im still young, single, no serious comitments, and my metabolism still works.

See you in Alaska

Why I Ride

The news couldn’t have come at a worse time. It was the end of an intense semester of 20 plus hours of engineering courses, little to no sleep, poor eating habits, and no relief in sight for the volume of labs and finals that I had to prepare for. Then my heart dropped to my feet and nothing else mattered. My mom had breast cancer. The first thing that came to my mind was the statistical chances of my mother’s mortality. What would I do with out her in my life? Is the cancer malignant or benign? Has it spread to the other vital organs around the breast? Since then, I have been witness to my aunt’s struggle with breast cancer and a friends struggle with severe colon cancer. The good news is that everybody survived. After contemplating upon these life changing moments, I started to fully appreciate the work cancer researchers do. It saves lives, and for that I am forever grateful. Now it is my turn. There is still more work to be done and many friends and families that need the benefit of the hard work the researchers do for fighting cancer. What is my role in the big picture? The answer is to raise money and awareness for cancer research.