On Saturday , 53 University of Texas students will climb on their bikes and start a 70-day, 4,687-mile journey north. The Texas 4000 for Cancer cyclists will cross mountains and deserts, endure blazing temperatures and rainstorms and test their leg muscles as they pedal from Austin to Anchorage to raise cancer awareness and money to […]

Mission resident Andrea Austin has hardly traveled outside Texas and really doesn’t know how to ride a real mountain bike. But the 20-year-old jumped at the chance to ride from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska, to raise money and awareness for cancer research and prevention with the University of Texas’ Texas 4000. The pre med student […]

This time a year ago, Courtney Somerville was just learning how to handle a road bike after having not ridden any kind of bicycle since grade school. And her first experience had not gone well. Yeah, those darned pedal clips. “I got clipped in, and I couldn’t get out,” Somerville said. Down she went. But […]

It looked like a makeshift triage center outside of Manteca Presbyterian Church Thursday evening. Except for exhausted bodies strewn about, what seemed like an endless supply of cycling jerseys, riding shorts, protective gear, and even towels covered almost every inch of the entrance in the back parking lot of the North Main Street worship center. […]

Courtney Somerville, a Richmond native, is going a great distance — more than 4,000 miles —to fight cancer. She is participating in the Texas 4000, the world’s longest annual charity ride from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska. Her 43-member team of mostly University of Texas graduates will complete the Rocky Route through Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming and […]

WHITESBORO,TX – It’s the longest annual charity bike ride in the world and riders with the Texas 4000 made their way through Texoma on Thursday. About 23 cyclists are riding 4,500 miles from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska, to raise money for cancer research. Some of the riders say it’s worth the trip if they can […]

A young man rode his bike to see his ailing grandmother in Slaton. He wasn’t riding across the neighborhood or even across town. Jon Stringer was only passing through Slaton and Lubbock on his way from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska. And this was the grandmother and grandson’s last visit before he continued on his ride […]

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – The Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer team started their 70-day journey from Austin to Alaska and their fight against cancer on June 6th, and will be biking their way through Lubbock on Wednesday. The bikers will be riding along the Slaton Highway to 19th and Buddy Holly, then to 16th […]