Every member of Team Suicide Prevention is compassionate and has a deep desire to help those in need. This past summer, our team of eight racers and eight crew participated in the Race Across America spreading a message of hope and awareness that Suicide is preventable. Even after our finish of the Race Across America in June (3,030 miles in 7d 19h 34m), our team members continue to engage with outreach projects and events that enable us to continue our mission in spreading hope and delivering the message that suicide is preventible and there are organizations such as Hope is Oxygen, The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and The Coffee Bunker in our communities there are in place to help fight the suicide epidemic and offer much needed support to those individuals and families in need.

Come get your gravel groove on at the Pumpkin Holler Gravel Smasher race event on October 17th in the beautiful J.T. Nickel Preserve northeast of Tahlequah, Ok. There are three course options of 30 miles, 60 miles, or 70 miles. Whether you are new to gravel bikes or a seasoned gritty gravel biker, come join Team Suicide Prevention for this wonderful opportunity to have a great gravel bike experience in the great outdoors under the open sky.

Roll on into Coweta, Oklahoma for the Tour de Cowtown bike event which is held on the same day as the Coweta Fall Festival, one of the last small town festivals left in which the community actually shuts down main street and comes together to party with rides, food, parades, bands and pie auctions.

This post includes two photo galleries from Team Suicide Prevention’s Race Across America .

This past Wednesday evening, Team Suicide Prevention and Hope is Oxygen were at Bixby Bicycles to receive generous donations from the owner, Buster Brown. Not only did Buster finish the Ironman Tulsa Triathlon on the previous Sunday, but he had also taken time from running his business and his heavy ironman training schedule to set up a volunteer network for the Ironman Tulsa event. He has partnered with our team on several events over the last year raising money for the prevention of suicide.

Team Suicide Prevention and Hope is Oxygen rallied together on Sunday to participate in a charity ride coordinated by Bixby Bicycles.