2014 marks a milestone for Texas 4000, as the organization passes the decade mark since its founding by UT engineering students Chris and Mandy Condit in 2004.

The Texas 4000 bike ride is more than twice as long as the Tour de France and presents participants with an intense physical challenge.

More than 80 UT Austin students biked on the Texas 4000 team from Austin to Anchorage, AL in support of cancer research this summer. “We are a cancer-fighting organization; basically the whole point is that we cultivate the next generation of leaders and activists in the fight against cancer,” said Anjali Sethi, who plans to […]

Public relations senior Rebecca Hoffman spent 70 days of her summer biking 4,000 miles to Alaska. The preparation for her journey to Alaska began 18 months prior, when she was accepted into Texas 4000, a nonprofit organization coordinating the world’s longest annual charity bicycle ride. Before her summer ride, Hoffman was responsible for raising more […]

Texas 4000 for Cancer is the longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world, starting in Austin, TX and ending in Anchorage, AK over a 70-day period. Every year a group of about 90 University of Texas students are accepted to participate in the ride. Each rider is expected to raise a minimum of $4,500 […]

ADA, Okla. – A young Chickasaw woman who navigated a bicycle from Austin to Anchorage under emotionally difficult circumstances will provide motivation for riders of the upcoming Pontotoc Pursuit. Sierra Welch, who embodies the Chickasaw trait of service to others, was a recent participant of the Texas 4000 ride to raise money to fight cancer. […]

A trip from the Texas capital to Alaska is no big deal, right? just board a flight on any one of three airlines for a fare of about $250, and you can be in Anchorage in less than 10 hours. Or…you can ride your bicycle up there, and it will take you about 70 days.