Texas 4000- Riding to fight cancer

Here at UT Austin, a select group of determined students are members of a great organization called Texas 4000.

Texas 4000 is an organization of young people who raise money and then ride their bicycles about 4,000 miles over the summer from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. According to their website, the riders are mostly UT students, and "they train, fundraise, educate, and bring hope to those with cancer."

I had the privilege of meeting with some of the riders for the 2010 summer team, and interviewed them for a podcast project that I worked on. Below is the link to the podcasts, and I think that they can explain the program in their own words better than I ever could.

PODCAST: Fighting Cancer by the Mile

If you want to help the cause and contribute to the Texas 4000 team, visit this link or just look for the riders around Austin- they're a high energy, very visible group.