I love being a part of leadership; it brings me closer to the mission of Texas 4000, and I truly feel like I’m having an impact on the organization and its people. I look forward to our weekly meetings, every Sunday night, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. There I am greeted by the same […]
November 10-11, 2018 Training Camp so one of the things that I’m really not a fan of is the cold. If you asked me whether I’d prefer near freezing or scorching hot temperatures, I’d take the three-digit Texas weather anytime. Born and raised, it’s what I’ve been conditioned to deal with. * * * It’s […]
December 8, 2018 Every weekend, the Texas 4000 team has a custom of doing Saturday rides. In our preparation to to reach Anchorage, Alaska, 2000 miles is our number to reach. And so every Saturday morning, while the rest of the city sleeps, 86 of us get up to put on our gear and head […]
My entire Texas 4000 journey thus far has been centered on the pillar of hope. I applied to Texas 4000 to bring hope to my family when we found out my dad’s cancer had spread to his brain. When I made the 2019 team, my dad’s eyes filled with tears and he said with a […]
My Weekend with the Schmidts and Nevin and my letter to the people who believe in me. Devine, Texas, it’s somewhere. I can’t exactly tell you where because I slept in the car on the way in and on the way out, but it is unequivocally somewhere. I arrived early afternoon on Saturday. It was […]
Okay guys, I have something to tell you, but you have to promise you won’t tell anyone. Okay? Okay. I hate hills. Okay, wait, I take that back. I don’t hate hills, but I strongly dislike them. I get this stomach churning, knot tying feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I approach […]
A few minutes after the clock struck midnight on the first day of the new year, it hit me. 2019 had officially arrived, and that meant that it was officially our ride year. My emotions hit me during the following days, oscillating in waves of nervousness and excitement. As my team gathered on our first […]
From cold, rainy days to warm, sunny ones I spent the later half of winter break riding with teammates. For any future rider that sees this, please ride over break! I highly recommend it for keeping cardio up and it gives you the chance to earn a few more miles. 345 in this case! Huge […]
By now, I’ve gotten pretty used to cycling. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not second nature yet, and I still have room for improvement. But, yeah, I’m not half-bad. The rides have become predictable, almost comforting in a sense: I’m used to waking up at 5:30, meeting my friends on the corner of the block, […]
It’s been over a year since we started our journey in this organization. All of last year, I begged for time to speed up. I wanted to get my jersey, get my bike, find out my route, start riding, a whole lot of monuments I wanted to happen right away. The problem with that is […]
