“Forward motion is authorized internally.”

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My name is Genna. I’m a 31-year-old trauma-informed writer, speaker, and ultra-endurance cyclist. In 2013, before graduating high school, I was kicked out of my family home by my parents after an adolescence squandered by domestic violence, hoarding, and narcissistic abuse. Fearful, consistently displaced, but convicted to remain the authority of my future, I picked up bike racing, using the deconstruction of generational and cognitive patterns to draw a new, unruled map.

For five years, I lived in a classic van to self-support my ambitions, previously held the 240-mile women’s Katy Trail record twice, am most liberated when soloing between cities, and my imminent objectives involve ultra-distance road races like the Mishigami Challenge and Trans-Am Nonstop, as well as the publication of my first book, Reorganism: A Metacognitive Resistance.

This is an ongoing collection of essays documenting my progress, and moreover, pulling apart ideas of human consciousness and what drives us to do what we do, on bikes or otherwise.