Two days ago, my team and the entire Bike & Build community mourned the death of Christina Genco, a leader on the South Carolina to Santa Cruz (SC2SC) trip. Christina was struck by a car and killed while riding in Alabama. We heard the news at night, and the next day struggled up the Appalachians. We felt the weight of our sorrow with every pedal as we moved slowly uphill. Although only our leaders had personally met Christina, she was a part of our Bike & Build family and we all were devastated. Later that day, pathetic fallacy erupted as a thunderstorm halted our ride for the day. The thunder, lightening, and pouring rain appropriately matched our emotions.
Please pray for Christina's family, her SC2SC team, the Bike & Build community, and cyclists everywhere. And please please please remember that a person's life is more important than getting somewhere fast in your car.
If I've learned anything from biking through the mountains, it is that for every struggle uphill, there is a smooth glide downhill. And to make it up that mountain, you sometimes need to be pushed and pulled up by those who love you. As a team, as friends, as family, Bike & Build will help push and pull eachother through the devastating loss of Christina.
We pedal on for Christina, with every ounce of sweat and blood in her honor. For her, we will continue on and bike & build as she would have wanted us to.
Ride hard, love harder.
"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, butnot in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed...We who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body." -2 Corinthians 4:8-11
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