12/27/2025 Calling All Survivors

As we set off in a New Year, and our 21st Courage Classic, something is crystal clear;

It’s time to celebrate our SURVIVORS

If you ride with Wheels as a Cancer or Blood Disorder survivor, please reply and let us know. Maybe you ride in honor of a survivor, we would be honored to celebrate you too! We would like to focus on the families that make up Wheels who have been silently (or loudly, like Brandon), thriving and riding in the Courage. Often patients with blood disorders cannot do an elevation based ride and maybe you are a family member that rides in their stead. We want to know you, we want to hear your stories and we want to honor you, if you’ll let us. Please reply, so that we can all learn a little more about each other and how we keep the Wheels of Justice turning all these years later.

I think it is human nature to reflect at the end of a year or decade and take a look at what lies ahead, and what we have achieved. I have done this on more levels than I can count over the last few months, turning 40, losing my grandmother, etc. It has been the honor of a lifetime to Captain Wheels of Justice and I feel very privileged to have contributed in such a meaningful way to CCBD’s fight. It’s time for me to pass my captain’s hat off to the next generation, and new leadership. As many of you know Heather & Aaron started Wheels of Justice in 2006 and led the team through 2015. Ben & I joined as Co-Captains with Tom & Bradley in 2016 and 2026 seems like the perfect year for the next group of leaders. While I would love to tell you who is taking the perverbial cap, we are hoping to develop more of a committee. And very much still looking for members. Click Here to learn about volunteering for Wheels.

I like round numbers, anyone who has followed me on Strava knows this to be true to a fault. So, I am filled with emotions but I know it’s time to step down as captain. I am very proud that as a team over the last 10 years we have raised just under $5,000,000. Nearly doubling the impact of our first 10 years and bringing our lifetime total to $7,500,000. It’s time for my family and I to fade into the participant category and experience the Courage Classic as riders without as much responsibility. I am grateful for each of you that will step up and make this possible for us all. We have no intentions of going quietly into the night, I don’t really do anything quietly after all. We jumped into the Wheels team with both feet and never took a moment to be riders, we were on the leadership committee from our very first year (2011). We are very excited to play in Copper and celebrate the fact that because of CHCO I have a brother, and we are the very fortunate ones.

So, enough about me, we ring in this new decade with a jersey and kit that will be designed with survivors in mind. Celebrating all the joy and lives saved by those illustrious caregivers that make up the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Registration opens soon, and Amy Goodner will be updating you with all you need to know as the season begins. Join us New Year’s Day for our 3rd Annual Group Ride -