Lael Wilcox, the best ultraendurance bicycle racer in the world, is a fourth generation Alaskan.  She grew up in Anchorage, and graduated from East High’s School Within a School, before earning a degree in chemistry and French at the University of Puget Sound.  In 2016, she became the first American, and first woman, to win the 4,400 mile Trans Am Bike Race that crosses the US from west to east.  The year before, she crushed the women’s record in the 2,745-mile Tour Divide, which follows the Continental Divide from Alberta to New Mexico. In 2017, Lael formed Anchorage GRIT—Girls Riding Into Tomorrow—as a mentorship program to teach young girls about cycling and expose them to role models.  She has also established scholarships to fund a rider’s journey on the Baja Divide route that she co-established from San Diego to San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, and another to fund cycling adventures in Alaska.  Lael lives with her girlfriend, Rue Kaladyte, in Tucson, Arizona.

Lael's Globe of Adventure

Anchorage Girls Riding Into Tomorrow (GRIT)