Today we rode 81 miles from Amarillo, to Dalhart, TX. It was a relatively simple day but there were several hard stretches. A girl in my ride group got a flat, we had Torchy’s Tacos donated, and I cut up a watermelon with a butter knife which was one of the highlights of my day. […]

  Today will mostly be pictures. We made it out of Louisiana where we had an unbelievably memorable experience that has set our ride up for success. The second we finished our border race and came into Mississippi we faced our first rain storm yet and saw hills that we’ve missed the past 13 days. […]

Day 14: #CheesecakeForNick My teammate, Ashley, rides for her friend Nick who passed away a few years ago. Nick’s favorite food was cheesecake. His family began a social media event of posting pictures of eating cheesecake on his birthday: which would have been today. Ashley mentioned his story this morning during our Ride Dedication circle, […]

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: […]