“I’m at my best when I'm riding,” Kate said. “It’s meditative. You're looking around, you're breathing, your focus is kind of shifting between all of the sensory experience involved in riding your bike.”
But some of her favorite adventures are quieter and not a race at all—a six-hour bike ride for a great cup of coffee, a leisurely drive with her husband and dog in her R1T or leading a group of beginners on a mountain bike ride and watching them fall in love with her sport.
“I love really hard training—I have to be so focused and so locked in. But my other favorite rides are these micro adventures, where I pick a coffee shop that's three hours away, and go there, and come back,” Kate said. “My husband and I have a family mantra to make every day great, which is like finding these really small things you know you love, or that you want to try, that can make a big difference in your everyday life.”
In 2025, Kate launched She Sends Racing, a non-profit organization with a mission to connect, support and inspire women and girls through mountain biking. One of Kate’s true passions is to use her sport to build community, and especially to get more girls on bikes.
“I work to inspire them to take risks and go for it,” Kate said. “Being able to connect with people through the sport I love has been a really big gift.”
Becoming a Rivian owner has made it easier to do that and just about everything she loves, she said.
“Honestly, it's changed my life. I mean, I have a really fun job. I get to race my bike as a job. But there's a lot of challenging things that come with that, and my truck makes it easier for me to do my job and have it be fun,” Kate said. “To be able to throw a bike over the tailgate, throw the dog in the truck and go do a ride, or to throw my stuff in the Gear Tunnel after a super muddy, long, wet ride—these are things that make such a difference.”
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