About Me

Profile

  • Route: Sierra
  • Ride Year: 2014
  • Hometown: Round Rock

About:

I’m Elaine Posluszny, (pause-loose-knee). I’m lucky enough to call the Austin area home and have lived in Round Rock my entire life. I come from a nerdy, loving and diverse family of six. My parents always challenged me to pursue everything with passion and to treat others as I'd like to be treated. We were the family that piled into the mini van to go see the country. From Yellowstone to Mt. Rushmore and Niagara Falls to the Grand Canyon, we toured just about every national park. The values my family taught me about compassion, learning, and determination define how I try to live my life.

Here are the rest of the quick facts. I am a Business Honors and Finance major with an Economics minor at UT. I have a twin sister who goes to TCU. I enjoy socializing with friends, traveling, running, baking, and honestly doing anything- not a fan of boredom.

I just graduated in May! Woo done with school! In late September I will start work at Deloitte Consulting in Dallas. My goal is to one day start a business, with my twin sister Laura who is a nurse, that increases transparency in health care. If we can know the exact facts about any car we want to buy, why can't we know the exact facts of a surgeon who is about to operate on a loved one or the sanitation details of all the local hospital choices?

Why I Ride

“This too shall pass.”

My roommate from freshman year taught me this motto whenever I hit rocky terrain. Life is a gift that should not be burdened by worry or unhappiness. Taking advantage of every moment does not mean signing up for every club or traveling the world. It means not letting the small things bother us and loving others to the fullest. For some, cancer too shall pass. Sometimes it takes a leg before it leaves, like it took my friend's. But for others, cancer steals what we all strive to make the most of, life. I ride because by biking across actual rocky terrain I am showing the world that cancer too, just like the tough mountainous slopes, shall pass. It is a matter of time, but the fight is on. I ride for a cure.