Steam-N-Wheels Bike Race

Lto R: Jacqueline, Bob, Rebekah, Joel, and Josh

Today was our first bike race/fun ride together!! It was a 12 mile bike ride starting from the Abilene Zoo and heading out of town past the airport.  Three of our group were unable to make it to the bike ride today.  But the five of us that did do it had a great time and were able to finish!! Bob, our valiant leader, popped a hole in his tire halfway and had to catch a ride the rest of the way back.  However, we made him proud when we cruised back into the zoo parking lot twenty minutes later, sweaty but victorious...and still in one piece

Bike Ride...

The Hardin-Simmons Leadership Studies Program has rallied together six students to plan and execute a bike ride across Texas. We will be accompanied by, the head of the Leadership Studies Program, Dr. Coleman Patterson, and Mr. Bob Sanderson, a long-time friend of The Leadership Program. Our route will be about 900 miles long (El Paso to Texarkana) and take us approximately 8-10 days to complete.

 

The trip itself is two-fold. The first reason for the trip is to gain experience within our own leadership studies program. We will be, and are currently, learning more of what it means to work together in a group to accomplish a specific goal. Our goal, currently, is to be able to make the trip happen with the help of generous support and donations.

 

The other purpose of this trip is to raise awareness to the benefit of physical activity. We will be raising funds to donate to Abilene ISD Physical Education.  It is meant to encourage our society as a whole that a healthy lifestyle is not out of reach, but just takes discipline and motivation. Our hope is that as the nine of us make our trip across the state, people will see an example of what you can do when you put your mind to it.