From Fear to 500,000+ Meters: Reclaiming My Passion on Two Wheels If you had told me a decade ago that I’d be scaling the iconic cols of the French Pyrenees, I would have laughed. When I was a young teen in South Africa, I was hit by a car while riding my bike. The accident left me with a severe concussion and months of relearning how to walk. The physical wounds healed, but the mental trauma ran deep. I didn't touch a bicycle for forty-four years. Then, in 2015, my partner T
