La Crosse, WI – The 2014 Texas 4000 rolled into La Crosse after 28 days and 2000 miles of biking. The Texas 4000 is the longest bike riding charity going from Austin Texas to Anchorage Alaska. The trip takes about 18 months of training to prepare for 4000 miles of biking in 70 days. There […]
Greenwood Village Mayor Ron Rakowsky declared June 15, 2014, Texas 4000 Fighting Cancer Day in the city. The Texas 4000 is an annual 4,000-mile bike riding effort to raise money to conquer cancer. Students at the University of Texas volunteer to join the bicycle ride, with more than enough students applying so the effort starts […]
My mother in-law, Flo Horton, a resident of St. Tammany Parish for more than 30 years, passed away in April at her residence in Houston, Texas. However, this is not about the life of an amazing and vivacious 91-year-old woman who battled a lengthy fight with cancer. It is, instead, about the generation she has […]
The longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world, the Texas 4000 team, will be rolling through Rochester on Saturday, 29 days after departing from Austin, Texas on the way to their final destination of Anchorage, Alaska. While in Rochester, the 2014 Texas 4000 team says it “will celebrate and share hope, knowledge and charity […]
Every year, Texas 4000 competitively selects University of Texas students for a 1,500-mile ride from Texas to Alaska, the money raised goes to fight cancer.
STOCKTON – Stockton played host Friday night to two dozen University of Texas students 20 days out on their 70-day bicycle ride from Austin, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska. The ambitious trek, in its 11th year, is known as the Texas 4000 and is considered the longest charity bicycle ride in the world. Its goal is […]
It had been seven months since Mokelumne Hill resident Richard Andrews last saw his daughter, Kirby Orosco. She’s a senior at the University of Texas in Austin, which is a long way from Calaveras County. But on Monday, he got his chance to reunite when the Texas 4000 – a group of UT students bicycling […]
A team of 27 cyclists rolled into Waynesville Monday as a part of a cross-country ride to raise awareness for cancers. The University of Texas cyclists, called Texas 4000, are taking part in on a 70-day ride that will end in Anchorage AK with one goal in mind — to fight cancer by raising funds […]
Each summer, roughly 100 University of Texas students embark on the Texas 4000, the longest annual charity bicycle ride. Next summer, 2012 Wheeler High School alumna Abigail Zeitler will ride. Chris and Mandy Condit founded the Texas 4000 in 2004. Both were students at UT’s main campus in Austin. Chris Condit, a Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor, […]
Cycling from Yosemite National Park to Sonora — a roughly 60-mile journey — in a day is a significant accomplishment. But it’s all in a day’s work for 24 cyclists pedaling from Texas to Alaska for cancer awareness. After camping at Hodgdon Meadow Campground in Yosemite on Sunday night, the cyclists arrived Monday afternoon in […]
