Amanda Powell Para-Cycling Journey to Paralympics

17/08/2025

My ninth month of cycling training 💪🏻

The good, the bad and the ugly! This month July with lots of personal things I don’t share about here , with Addys diagnosis, and a dip in my training it had some of all of that. The good , the bad and the ugly.

Thank you and for keeping me going on a very very tough training month.

13/08/2025

Happy Birthday to my beautiful Mama and longest best friend🫶🏻🫶🏻

We’ve been together for a long long time ! I love you so so much !

07/08/2025

Disposable camera views with up 🪻🌞

What’s wild to me is these are most of the kinds of pictures I have in boxes I’ve been through lately of memories in high school and before . I love it! Love the perspective and photos that sometimes we say it does it do justice but isn’t that the point , being more present in the moment to remember all the beautiful things we get to experience.

Did you ever carry around a disposable camper? 📸

31/07/2025

July highlights and realities 🎆

I think I found more joy in July then any month but it came with alot of pain too. Pain I don’t always always talk about but from personal struggles, to Addys diagnosis, to really really putting in the work with trauma . I feel like it was such a transformational month. A lot of that has to do with TMS therapy that was around 5 days a week for about 9 weeks! It helped take my back in this anxiety and trauma I’ve been dealing with for a lot of my life. I’ll share more about it next week ! Mental health was paying a big part in my training and some blocks . I’m so grateful for July! Though it came with pain I’ll never forget it !

Photos 1-2 : camping with our popup and mh favorite people .

Photos 3-4: Trail adventures up the cottonwood canyons with my girls .

Photos 5-11: BIKES 🎆 Since my therapy was exhausting me physical and mentally I cut back some training to refind my joy in my bike and my people with bikes .

Photo 12-13: Addys first time playing at the splash pad since last summer she was healing from her Gtube surgery .

Photos 14-15: Appointments, appointments, appointments. Trying to get a good flow of dealing with lots of medical appointments but with Addys diagnosis it helped bring some peace in yes unknowns but having a name to what we can help her with instead of so much fear and anxiety .

Photo 16: Adventures with my mama🌞

Photo 17: with our friends .

Photo 18: Seeing my auntie from out of town from the east coast .

Photo 19: staycation was a blast !

Photo 20: Discovering an author with cerebral palsy talking about learning to bike and doing hard things ! Check out Jonathan Aubrey’s book : Am I different?

26/07/2025

Bodie 🥹🥹🥹 Happy Birthday!

7 years of adventuring and getting through some really tough stuff but having my best bud is what’s got me through . You never fail when the human love fails .

25/07/2025