SRAM Gold Rusch Tour Comes To Bike & Brew!
The SRAM Gold Rusch Tour was designed by pro-cyclist Rebecca Rusch to get women of all ages outdoors and on their bicycles. The tour features seven unique events with the goal of increasing women’s participation in mountain biking and cycling by offering fun, social, and non-intimidating venues that educate and empower. Events include coached riding clinics for all skill levels, the ladies lounge and happy hour events exclusively for female riders.
About Rebecca Rusch
Author, Rusch To Glory • Six-Time World Champion • Four-time Leadville 100 Champ • Firefighter
The Reign of the Queen of Pain
When describing Rebecca Rusch’s athletic achievements, it may be easier to talk about what she hasn’t done, but, like Rebecca herself, we’re doing this the hard way. Her national and world titles in whitewater rafting, adventure racing, orienteering, and crosscountry skiing certainly impress, but they only set the stage; it’s the two-wheeled victories that really lengthen her resume. Rusch’s mountain bike accomplishments would strain the pixels on your screen. National wins across multiple off-road formats top the list, as well as record-setting victories at storied ultra endurance races like the Leadville Trail 100, Dirty Kanza 200, and 24 Hour MTB World Championships. Not content to wait for the race to come to her, Rusch also claimed the record on the 142-mile Kokopelli Trail, coming in more than an hour and a half faster than the previous champion. It wasn’t her idea, but it doesn’t take a professor to see why she earned the moniker “The Queen Of Pain.”
While maintaining this laundry list of accolades would be enough for most athletes, Rusch takes no such time to rest on her laurels. Her SRAM Gold Rusch Tour has been traveling to races and events across North America to help get more women in the saddle and riding their bikes through skills clinics, social events, and group rides. She created Rebecca’s Private Idaho, a grueling gravel road event in her hometown of Ketchum that attracts hundreds of riders to her backyard every year, all for charity. Organizations like the International Mountain Bike Association, World Bicycle Relief, PeopleForBikes.org, the National Interscholastic Mountain Bike Association, and the Wood River Bicycle Coalition can count her as an official ambassador and, in some cases, board member. All that, and she’s still a firefighter and EMT with the Ketchum Fire Department and walks her dog, Diesel, just about every day. What better way to learn more about this exceptional athlete than through her own words? Rebecca’s highly anticipated autobiography, Rusch To Glory, tells her story of transformation from ordinary to extraordinary and will inspire anyone to discover their own greatness.
To learn more about Rebecca visit: www.rebeccarusch.com
To learn more about Rebecca’s SRAM Gold Rusch Tour: www.goldruschtour.com
To learn more about her fundraising for non-profits: www.rebeccasprivateidaho.com