CMT Unbroken
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06/11/2026
It’s easy to spend your life focused on what CMT has taken from you.
The weakness.
The falls.
The pain.
The fatigue.
The uncertainty of a body that doesn’t always cooperate.
And if we’re not careful, we can spend so much time studying our limitations that we never recognize what those limitations have been teaching us.
Because while CMT creates challenges, it also forces adaptation.
We learn awareness because we have to.
We learn resilience because giving up isn’t an option.
We learn adaptability because the old way no longer works.
We learn persistence because every setback demands it.
We learn purpose because eventually we realize surviving isn’t enough.
None of us would have chosen this disease.
None of us would wish it on someone we love.
But if we’re honest, many of the qualities we are most proud of today were forged in the struggle.
The person I became because of CMT is stronger than the person I would have been without it.
Not physically.
But mentally.
Emotionally.
Spiritually.
CMT gave me every reason to quit.
Instead, it taught me how to endure.
And that’s what this model is really about.
Not pretending the symptoms don’t exist.
Not glorifying suffering.
But recognizing that within every challenge is an opportunity to build something greater.
Because survival is where the journey starts.
Thriving is what happens when we learn to use it.
This is where survival becomes strategy.
Strength. Identity. The courage to adapt.
Day 200: The Work Continues
Two hundred days ago, I committed to a goal that felt almost impossible:
Ride the 100-mile course at El Tour de Tucson with CMT.
Back then, I wasn’t sure if my body would cooperate. I wasn’t sure if I could handle the volume. I wasn’t sure if I could stay consistent long enough to find out.
Today was Day 200.
🚴 20.18 miles on Zwift
⛰️ 561 feet of climbing
⚡ 3rd-highest 5-minute power output of all time
🔥 11-day activity streak
Then:
🏋️ Bench Press: 135 lbs × 100 reps
🏋️ Pendlay Row: 75 lbs × 50 reps
🏋️ Shoulder Press: 75 lbs × 50 reps
But the numbers that matter most aren’t from today.
They’re from 200 days ago.
Two hundred days ago, I was hoping I could finish 100 miles.
Today, I’m posting some of the strongest cycling numbers of my life.
Two hundred days ago, I was wondering if I belonged in endurance sports with CMT.
Today, I’m leading Team CMT Unbroken into El Tour de Tucson.
Two hundred days ago, the goal was simply to survive the journey.
Today, I believe I can compete in it.
The ride wasn’t built in one breakthrough workout.
It was built through 200 mornings. 200 decisions. 200 opportunities to quit that I didn’t take.
165 days until El Tour de Tucson.
The dream isn’t impossible anymore.
Now it’s becoming reality.
Most of our beliefs about our limits were written during our hardest chapter, not our final one.
For many of us with CMT, there was a moment when we decided certain things were over.
Maybe it was after a diagnosis.
After a fall.
After losing strength.
After realizing our bodies weren’t going to cooperate the way they once did.
And those moments are real.
The pain is real.
The grief is real.
But the conclusions we make in those moments aren’t always permanent.
How many things have we convinced ourselves we can no longer do?
How many dreams have we quietly set aside?
How many possibilities have we stopped exploring?
CMT changes the rules.
It forces adaptation.
It demands creativity.
It asks more of us than most people will ever understand.
But changing the rules is not the same thing as ending the story.
The strongest people in this community aren’t the ones who never struggle.
They’re the ones who keep finding new ways forward.
Our hardest chapter is not our final one.
Keep adapting.
Keep exploring.
Keep becoming.
CMT Unbroken
Strength, Identity, and the Courage to Adapt.
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