Bike Ride Podcast

Will Stingley is the Founder and Executive Director at the Go4Graham Foundation, which is a movement to shred the stigma surrounding mental health and to promote mental wellness through cycling, exercise, and connection. Will lives in Colorado with his wife and three kids. Will wrote emphatically, "I love mountain biking!"

April Paige is from Denver, Colorado. Bikes have been a part of her life since the early 90's, from road bikes to mostly mountain bikes. She has been involved   with the local racing community as well as a partner with Colorado High School Cycling League. April created the Check-In Foundation with one thing in mind: to provide a platform for others to openly discuss their challenges with mental health disorders in a fun and safe environment. They provide resources throughout the mountain bike and action sport   communities.

Adelaide fell in love with cycling when she went on a month-long bike tour with her sister. She has, at various times since then, raced bikes, promoted a bike race, worked in the bike industry, given up her car to be a bike commuter, and qualified as a pro-triathlete. While she just published a book about recovering from a life-threatening crash she was involved in, she still loves to ride her bike and hopes to encourage others to spend time on two wheels.

From a small town on the east coast to living in southern California, Rob has now called Steamboat Springs home for about almost 27 years. Team Fun is a simple way to put it for Big Rob, Mustache Rob, Tattooed Rob, or just Peterson! Just say thank you, it goes a long way.

John Hutchinson, AKA "Hutch", is the Operations Director for the Colorado High School Cycling League and has been involved with the League since 2010. Prior to relocating to Golden, Colorado with his wife in 2010, Hutch taught high school mathematics and ran a nationally ranked soccer program in San Jose, California. Hutch then transitioned from education to the cycling industry, working in sales for Primal Wear. His journey over the past decade brings together his passion for cycling and positively impacting youth. Hutch enjoys racing mountain bikes, playing guitar, and hiking with his family.

Carrie Morgridge serves as the Vice President and Chief Disruptor of The Morgridge Family Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is to invest in leaders and organizations that are reimagining solutions to some of today’s greatest challenges. Carrie and her husband John are avid athletes. In fact, they mountain biked across the country on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route covering 2,774 miles from Canada to Mexico in 46 days. Carrie has completed ten Ironman competitions.

At 335   pounds, Sue Reynolds couldn’t walk a block, fit in a restaurant booth, or even tie her own shoes. She had a secret daydream to finish a triathlon which she  did after losing 200 pounds and coming in dead last. Along the way she  discovered an athlete and competitive spirit inside herself, authored a book and now inspires others!

Tom is the Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Product Line Management at Gates Corporation, a company that makes industrial belts and hoses that go into just about everything from vacuum cleaners to oil rigs, construction and agriculture equipment and even bicycles.  Gates is also a major sponsor of the Colorado Classic Professional Women’s Cycling race held here in Colorado and the company has done a number of bike builds with Wish for Wheels.  Tom’s a self-proclaimed wannabe avid cyclist and gets out on his road bike or Carbon Drive driven mountain bike a few times a week.  He describes his mountain bike as a mechanical work of art!.

Bill Donavan grew up racing BMX bikes in Madison, Wisconsin, in the 70’s but quickly got a road bike which became his main form of transportation to this day. After high school he moved to Jackson Wyoming to snowboard, but eventually he ended up in college in Colorado where he got a design and photography degree and met his wife but found his way back to Jackson where they worked in ad agencies and bought a large screen printing operation, and rode the MTB biking wave through the 90’s. It was on a bike that he realized that to change the world, he needed to start with babies, and launched a global toy company. With so many moves and career changes, the one constant was bikes, and bike racing.

A former US Ski Team downhill racer, Alison switched to bike racing and is the only person in history to win the road race, time trial, and criterium National Championship titles in one year (2014). A life of professional sports has now led her into coaching. She owns ALP Cycles Coaching and coaches athletes of all ages and abilities to reach their cycling and athletic goals.