Touch the Gate
This past weekend, I did a training ride with a local bike club. The route sheet said to take "Silverado Canyon Road to the Gate ([entrance to Cleveland National Forest] and make a U-Turn". It was an out and back type of ride and the gate was our turnaround point. I was with a group of three other riders when we saw the gate at the far end of the parking area we had just entered. So, as is my custom, I rode up to the gate...and touched it before turning around. The group laughed at my…See More
On April 4, 2006, at the age of 23, I crashed in a professional bicycle race. The subsequent effects led me to endure a coma, substantial bodily damage, and a traumatic brain injury. My outlook was bleak. Medical professionals did not know if I would survive, and if I did, what kind of life I would lead. Miraculously I awoke from my coma only to enter a world full of doubt and uncertainty. Now fully recovered, I have created the Raisin Hope Foundation to help transform hope into knowledge. My goal is threefold:
As a 
