Texas 4000 for Cancer

The Texas 4000 for Cancer or Texas 4000 is the longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world. Texas 4000 is a group of over forty cyclists, mainly students from the University of Texas at Austin. A new group of students is chosen for the ride each year through an application process. Each rider will raise at least $4,500 and their collective goal is to raise over $240,000 each year for the American Cancer Society. They also volunteer in hospital cancer units and provide information and hope while cycling the 4,500 miles from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. To date the organization has raised over $850,000.

The daily focus of their trek is threefold: first, to use their personal experiences to bring hope to cancer patients they meet along the way; second, to educate others they meet about cancer; last, to urge everyone they meet to join them in their fight against cancer.