Fifty-three Longhorns will ride into Anchorage on Friday, ending a 4,600-mile odyssey to raise money for the fight against cancer. The Texas 4000 for Cancer is the longest charity bike ride in the world – and twice as long as the Tour de France. For the past seven summers, UT students have made the journey […]

Austin, Texas – The longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world, Texas 4000 for Cancer, will be rolling through Seattle on Sunday, July 18. Riders braving rain, sleet, wind, snow and heat in support of cancer research will make a 70-day journey to their final destination, Anchorage, Alaska. The 4,687-mile ride to Alaska which […]

This time next year, Gabriel Cintron plans to be pedaling his way to Alaska. Cintron, however, isn’t bicycling to Alaska just for fun. The 20-year-old pre-med student is raising money for cancer research as part of Sense Corp Texas 4000 For Cancer, an organization that coordinates a group bike ride each year from Austin to […]

Summer is the season for charity cross-country bike rides, and one of the nation’s longest ones will be passing through Sacramento on Thursday. The Texas 4000 for Cancer, a 4,687-mile journey that began on June 5 in Austin, Texas, and is scheduled to finish in August in Anchorage, Alaska, will stop at the state Capitol […]

A group of over 20 college students from University of Texas will spend 70 days of their summer recess on bicycles to make the 4,000 mile trek from Texas to Alaska to raise money and awareness to help fight Cancer. The team will stop over in Kanab on June 20 on their way to a […]

A team of fit, young college students glided down the streets of Ardmore, decked out in cycling gear on streamlined black Trek bikes. The group of 27 isn’t here for long. If you miss them, they’ll be back next year. Thursday was day 6 of an arduous journey. The pack of University of Texas students […]

On their trek from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska, the Coastal team of Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer came through Brownwood Sunday with 26 of the 53 riders involved in this fundraising event. The Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer is the longest charity bike ride in the world. 53 riders are pedaling over […]

Imagine going from Central Texas to Alaska under your own pedal power. Saturday morning, the longest charity bike ride in the world got underway in Central Texas, and hundreds of cyclists took part. Fifty-three riders will be making the entire trip to Anchorage, Alaska. “The 53 of us have already raised $325,000 in the fight […]

Jared Muston has conquered cancer. Now he plans to conquer a 4,700-mile bike ride from Austin to Alaska. Jared Muston trained in Austin on Wednesday. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2007. After going into remission that December, he began cycling. “> JULIA ROBINSON Jared Muston trained in Austin on Wednesday. He was diagnosed […]

By the time they reach the City of Champions today, riders with the Texas 4000 will have racked up less than 200 miles. But by the time they arrive at their final destination, the bicyclists will have amassed more than 4,000 miles in a little more than two months. According to University of Texas President […]