Jess McWhirt, Pueblo, CO (2026)

I've been training for the past eight years, helping friends and family achieve their athletic goals. Only did I finally become certified this past year, so I can start to make a living off my passion for helping others. I know from first-hand experience that when you start pushing your body out of its comfort zone and meet your fitness goals, that confidence spills over to other aspects of your life.

03/15/2026

Cactus Cup Day 1 - 1st
Cactus Cup Day 2 - 1st
Cactus Cup Overall - 1st

I’m giving myself credit where credit is due. Having a chronic illness for 21 years has made living so much harder than it needs to be, especially when it comes to racing.

Having less energy and more pain than my competitors means doing more with less. It means never letting my illness take control. And it means knowing I start my day with less in the tank than most people.

Day 1 was brutal. Going from 60°F weather to 90°F kicked everyone’s ass but with a chronic illness, it set me back further. I couldn’t eat without my digestive system protesting. My head was killing me, I lost my voice, and I barely slept.

Day 2, I wasn’t sure if I’d even make it to the start line without having to run to the toilet. I couldn’t get a full breath with my asthma, but that’s life.

I lined up with the other racers determined to give it all that I had.

And race after race, my body continues to push through its limitations. And damn, if I’m not grateful for all that it does for me.

02/22/2026

We took my mom to a kangaroo meet-and-greet for her 66tg birthday and learned that kangaroos’ fur is velvety soft. They’ll move on all fours as a sign of submission and trust. They can run up to 40 mph and they p**p 100 times a day.

These four live on a farm in Brighton but they were born in Texas. Their favorite snacks are carrots, romaine lettuce, apples, and granola.

My favorite stone-cold killer fact: Out of survival, kangaroos lure dingos into deep water then drown them. 🤘🏼

02/02/2026

Insert something about base miles.

Happy off-season to all those who celebrate. Now, go play.

01/23/2026

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
-Albert Camus

Even the dictionary has a hard time defining what happiness is. It states,
1. the quality or state of being happy.

When you look up ‘happy,’ it says:
1. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing.
2. characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy.
But not all things make people happy and not all people are happy by things. To characterize it as “pleasure, contentment, or joy” is just using other words to define it.

Pleasure, contentment, or joy are their own states of being.

Maybe happiness is elusive. If it can’t be defined then how do you search for it? By searching for something that isn’t easy to define, that’s what creates lack.

Same goes for searching for the meaning of life. Everyone has their own definition and if there are millions of definitions of the meaning of life then is there such a thing?

So instead of endlessly searching for things that evade definitions, just be. Live. Follow what brings pleasure, what brings contentment, what brings joy - whatever that is for you.

12/27/2025

My bilateral salpingectomy turns four today!

This is a celebration of the freedom to choose what I wanted to do with my body. I never wanted to be a mother. I’d been asking doctors every year for this surgery since I was 16 and every year until I was 33, doctors told me no. That I was too young, that I didn’t know what I wanted, that I’d meet a man who’d change my mind.

And then I finally met a woman doctor who listened to me. Who agreed I knew best for my body.

This is for anyone who’s struggled to get the care they deserve, for those who were dismissed by doctors, and for the rest of us who were served patriarchy under medical gowns.

12/18/2025

37 things I’ve learned this past year:

1. get the tattoo.
2. my body doesn’t like candy as much as I do.
3. neuroplastic pain is when the brain/nervous system misinterprets messages from the body as if they’re dangerous because the nervous system is stuck in a chronic pain state.
4. while using spravato didn’t make a difference in my pain, anxiety, & depression, it did give me the permission to sit still for 2 hours.
5. i quickly lose my mountain biking skills & confidence when I don’t practice weekly.
6. being a homeowner means wishing whatever noise I just heard was a ghost & not something breaking/leaking.
7. matching someone’s effort reveals a lot about the relationship.
8. most-discussed topics in therapy: relationships, friendships, chronic pain, & work
9. more times than not, I’m outside my window of tolerance, & it’s hard to stay within it.
10. when I rush, I make mistakes, & then i beat myself up for it.
11. i hate losing.
12. you have to always advocate for yourself because no one else will.
13. some things are better left unsaid & other times, you’ll really need to push yourself to speak up.
14. stop to take the pictures because you’ll eventually forget what happened.
15. you’ll start to define friendship in a different way.
16. growth happens when you take risks.
17. even though you’re athletic and watch what you eat, your family’s genetics will still give you high cholesterol.
18. you have the power to break an anxiety tic (picking at my cuticles).
19. you need to set and uphold boundaries between work and personal life.
20. always take up Pete’s offer to ride in Vail during the fall to see the leaves changing. (Continued in comments)

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