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Story time about my Australian friend Alex 🇦🇺
(but more importantly, a thank you to a friend who flew across the world to be my support system when I needed one.)

Alex & I met during a pretty weird chapter of both of our lives. We were both going through breakups, figuring out what came next, & somehow became kindred spirits in the middle of it.
He came from Australia to Colorado to figure out his own path, met me within three days & naturally I convinced him to do something unnecessarily hard: the Triple Bypass…118 miles & 10,000+ feet of climbing through the Colorado mountains at elevation 😮‍💨 buttt beyond signing up for my shenanigans, Alex showed up for me. He supported me at Boulder 70.3, listened to me talk through life, told me when I needed to slow down & became one of those friendships I never saw coming.

And then this dude flew ALL THE WAY FROM AUSTRALIA TO FRANCE to support me at Worlds. (But also bikepacked to Nice from Barcelona because he needed to do something hard too #euromaxxing 😂) naturally he was also my “bike mechanic,” which meant watching me unpack & rebuild my own bike while he just answered my questions because apparently “I’m just a girl” isn’t an excuse anymore.

But that’s kind of our friendship in a nutshell.
Alex told me one of the things he learned from me was to “do it anyway.” (new catch phrase? 😏) and I think one of the best parts of our friendship is realizing how much we’ve taught each other without ever really trying to.
Alex taught me a lot about valuing your people. You don’t have to see or talk to someone every day. You can annoy each other, disagree, get frustrated & ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT IT. Apparently Australians are just really good at communicating???

So thank you to my favorite Australian for traveling across the world to make sure I wasn’t doing that race alone

Cheers & vamos chicos 🤝 by @alrides_

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19 days ago

Bikes, beers, new friends and great stories. Love me some bike packing adventures! Not very aero and kinda heavy bike was a fun ride.

#cycling #bikepacking #adventure #france #catalunya taken in Portbou, Espagne by @alrides_

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19 days ago

NICE ride! Thanks for the good coffee and good times.
#cycling #nice #groupride #travel #roadcyclingpics taken in Café du Cycliste by @alrides_

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a month ago

ROUVY Rumble had everything! 🏆

Congratulations to @mowdegrasse and @alrides_ 🤩

We are here until Sunday, 11AM everyday 🚀

Come by and WIN BIG! 💜 by @alrides_

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a month ago

🦈🌴🏖Fun adventures between flights. taken in Kuata Island, Fiji by @alrides_

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2 months ago

Thank you Colorado! 🇺🇸 To the new friends, the bike rides and the endless adventures 🧗‍♂️ I'm not good at leaving 👋 by @alrides_

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3 months ago

Time to switch shoes for a bit 🧗‍♂️🌄

#yosemite #worldbybike #gravel #cycling #gravelcycling taken in Yosemite National Park by @alrides_

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3 months ago

First crit. First Tuesday Night Thunder. Somehow we survived. 🇦🇺⚡ Thanks TENDEG for the invite—Louisville, CO you put on a seriously fun race in the heat! 🥵🚴🎥 Be back with a road bike next time!!

#criterium #critracing #bikerace #roadcyclingpics #worldbybike taken in Louisville, Colorado by @alrides_

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3 months ago

Longest Ride ✅️
Biggest Climb ✅️
Most Elevation Gain ✅️
Triple Bypass Completed ✅️
Funnest and hardest ride of my life! Like trying to breathe through a straw 🫁
Thank you to @mowdegrasse and @josiah_g_johnson for the companionship preparing and throughout the day! taken in Loveland Pass - Continental Divide by @alrides_

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3 months ago

Life lately. VO2 Max 📈 by @alrides_

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3 months ago

Sunsets 🌄 and cycles 🚴‍♂️
Bike check ✅️ Trek Checkpoint SL5 Gen2 taken in Scarborough Boat Harbor by @alrides_

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4 months ago

Funcle Al doing daycare rides 🚲 Henry fell asleep in his seatbelt 😴💤 3 minutes after this photo for the 15 minute ride home.
Funcle = Fun Uncle taken in Banana Bender Pub by @alrides_

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4 months ago