The trip between Flower Mound, Texas and Alaska is 4,000 miles long, and one former Flower Mound student is making the trip in honor of her father. The hope is to find a cure for cancer.
As part of the 2013 Livestrong Texas 4000 Team, Caroline Suh will join 75 other University of Texas students on the ride from Austin to Anchorage. This is the 10th year students will ride between Austin and Alaska, and before they leave on June 1, the riders are trying to raise money. Suh graduated from Flower Mound High School in 2010.
Suh says she decided to do the bike ride after losing her father in 2005. He battled stomach cancer for six-months. “I thought of doing this after he passed,” Suh said. “While he was sick, I was still in middle school, and things were hectic. I didn’t think that I could make a change. It took a while to adjust, but even though I’m a single person, I realize that I can still do my part to battle this disease.” Each rider will have to raise $4,500 for the trip, although Suh says that she has set a personal goal to raise $7,000. She says that together, their group's goal is to raise $600,000.
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