Amanda Powell Para-Cycling Journey to Paralympics

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Amanda Powell Para-Cycling Journey to Paralympics

Amanda Powell Para-Cycling Journey to Paralympics I'm Amanda, a Utah adventurer and National Park geek. I'm passionate about showing that the outdoors is for people of all ability levels.

Living with Cerebral Palsy I advocate for those with disabilities and show that the outdoors really is for everyone.

10/02/2025

My forth month in cycling training 💪🏻 I love to share the good , the bad , and the ugly because that’s what life is ! It’s freaking amazing and hard in all the good waves!

Need an awesome coach for my disabled and nondisabled cycling friends always recommend ! I’ve seen steady improvements physically and mentally and it feels awesome!

08/02/2025

Happy 40th anniversary to the ! I will be forever grateful for those that have helped me get into adaptive sports! It makes me happy cry because it hasn’t just changed my mental health but has helped me and my family be able to experience things like skiing and biking together that I never thought were even possible 4 years ago 🥹

They helped me figure out what I love and what makes my heart happy the most paracycling! It gave me the confidence to make the next steps in getting a coach to start competing in cycling! Thank you!

Also a huge congratulations to my friends and future paralympians! You crushed it out there and thanks for making my girl Zoey smile with getting your autograph! 🫶🏻

05/02/2025

And so the many many more bike adventures began lol some may think really but you go on so many ? No they are endless because addy is big enough to go in the bike trailer🙌🏻🙌🏻 Nothing can stop us now ! We are on our way !

Reality 😆 I biffed it pretty hard after putting the bikes and bringing the girls in. Just sharing for the reality to say it’s okay if are having fun and a hot messed and frustrated you get tired so fast . Zoey is SUCH a big helper but reality is it’s tough with my cerebral palsy mobility and Addys motor delays but are adapting and making it happen!

Ps did you know and most pediatrician recommend one year old for the bike trailer. Always check with your dr when your little is ready.

29/01/2025

The first memories of a celebrity crush was Justin Timberlake😆 I was probably 10 years old. Now being 36 and my childhood best friend telling me she got tickets for us for our birthdays on the second row I flipped! My 10 year old heart was mesmerized!

Thanks for the most amazing night .atchison ! We didn’t even get a video of us rocking out to Justin because we were mesmerized by his dancing with the .

27/01/2025

What’s better than bikes and skis? Ski bikes and babes on skis! We’re both on the powder after two years and it feels good! Zoey’s grown so much in just two years and I don’t know how I feel about it but I love it 🥹🥹

Swipe to see what two years can do! Zoey’s already feeling more comfortable on skis and so am I am! I can’t wait to see where we will be in two years 🥹🥹 skiing on the mountain together and not just the magic carpet?! Thank you for helping me progress in just a few lesson. Closer and closer to independence!

23/01/2025

For the parents and kiddos that have to be parted for just a little bit for surgeries, procedures, tests. It’s the hardest thing and you don’t really understand until you’re doing it yourself or experiencing it for yourself or your kids. It’s this pit in your stomach and ache in your chest. It’s being brave but knowing tears come with being brave for yourself and your kiddos. It’s knowing you’re doing the best for your baby and handing them over for a while in the care of another human being as they do things that there is always a risk. It’s terrifying but having to go with your gut even if that gut feels sick and your mind is anxious.

For the friends and family that aren’t experiencing it in that moment and maybe they have or will or never will but still show up by text and calls and thoughtful gestures. Those are your people.

Often we don’t know what to say because we haven’t experienced it, we feel uncomfortable or like we will say the wrong thing but often the wrong this is better than nothing. I’ve continued to share my open perspective on disability with my disability and medical complexities with my daughter because silence is strong in this world.

I used to feel like I couldn’t be sad, scared, mad, or angry because it wasn’t acceptable in society. Often anger and rage are more acceptable to society than sadness, tears and depression. But speaking up, and advocating for your kiddo and yourself is important because it shows the world and others we are all human. We don’t need to feel heard by just anger. So parents and others speak up! It’s okay to be scared, it’s okay to say depression is creeping in! I see you and you are the strong ones!

14/01/2025

My third month (December) with cycling training after getting a coach! I like to share the highs lows and everywhere in between to share that it’s not easy and realistically sharing the process. Remember everyONE is different and that is okay!

Ps thanks for keeping it real with me in sharing your ups and downs too! If you are ever on the trials in Utah and want to peddle together let’s do it!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

27/12/2024

Tis the season for magic, lots of love, thrift store shopping with your mama , some sadness ( that it’s really okay to talk about it , I think pretending hurts us more), medical mom exhaustion of appointments , procedures and scheduling surgeries, visiting our favorite people , seeing the excitement in your kiddos eyes 🫶🏻, almost snow , overstimulation, giggles, cuddles , cheesy Christmas movies , and FOOD 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

26/12/2024

Merry Christmas 🎄 We hope this reaches a family that needs a little bit of hope this Christmas. Holidays are not easy. Just a few days ago my heart was feeling like it was going to be a repeat year of a scary Christmas. I know it’s just a day but to some people it’s a sad of hurt and they need a little bit more hope and love this time of year . I know we have or different hurts so know whatever it is someone cares🎄

22/12/2024

All the Christmas trees at primary children’s brings a little bit of cheer even in another hospital visit 🎄 We hope not to make this a trend and to be home for Christmas.
Sweet Addy is resilient! She’s doing okay . Her body is just fighting something hard with a scary high fever that we had to come in. Sweet big sis gave her bluey to take to the hospital. They have a bingo and bluey when they are apart. We got these when addy had her first surgery. Zoey almost brought me to tears when she came running in to give it to her . She said mommy we have to be together and handed it to us.

Merry Christmas and thanks for the people that donated the trees for the festival of trees so I could take a walk around to destress 😢This girl is always happy even sometimes when she’s sick she’s smiling but not today . Her poor little body has been through it. She will be ready to eat that birthday cake frosting when she feels better🎄

20/12/2024

The necessary Disneyworld photo dump 🎄

From Zoey’s obsession with Pluto, to Addys excitement squeals seeing piglet from across the room, greys stuff, all the Christmas trees, to Addy lighting up meeting Snow White and snow white talking to her for a while , Zoey’s love for the Toy Story mania ride so much that we sat in that line two different times for longer then I want to admit but skipped the grown up ride cause I loved seeing her excitement , I will definitely never forget this trip!

15/12/2024

My second month of cycling training 💪🏻

hope you enjoy these but if not atleast I’m writing down things I’ve put in my notes and it’s good to look back to move forward . The good, the good, the bad , and the ugly .

14/12/2024

A absolutely YES! If not more enjoyable then the summer months but remember to dress warm because it gets quite chilly and will only be enjoyable if you dress for the cold.

Swipe and let me know your opinion about Canyonlands in the winter months ➡️

Thank you 📸: .mom for a few of these great pictures from our family yurt trip in 2023.

03/12/2024

The neurologist freaks me out. It’s like my body can feel it even more strongly when it’s my child and not me. My poor mom all those years ago.

Feeling out those questions of what my girl experiences reminds me of every form I’ve filled out with annoyance.

It’s okay to be upset . Angry . Frustrated . Why addy . Why our family we already deal with my disability . AND HOPEFUL all at the same time. We saw the neurologist a few months ago and they said all her development was going well BUT her motor delays. As a disabled mama with cerebral palsy my brain tried to remain calm until they mentioned cerebral palsy. I decided to stop sharing her story because it’s her story but what happens when it’s a part of mine too now . Cerebral palsy is not hereditary , it just feels like a mess of bad luck.

They said they just see some things but maybe she just doesn’t have the motivation . All I know is it makes me angry with the universe and maybe my own faith a little to be here around the holidays worried about my child’s life and health. She is a happy girl and I’m a happy mama . I just hope 2025 doesn’t say oh hey and here is this for ya!

I preach on here about the ups and downs and here is a down. It’s not a tragedy to have a disability but it is a lot of grief and sadness . Praying for a “normal” mri .

28/11/2024

Thankful🍁

This Thanksgiving I’m more grateful then I ever have, I was grateful before but after a year of fear and almost losing the most important things in life . I’m grateful to be breathing and I don’t take that lightly anymore. After starting to go Spesis , my body wanting to shut down and my daughter going into respiratory failure I’ll never take life for granted again. Ya I may stress about small things but life’s taught me a lot this year and here I am to share a few of them . This year as we continue to work through Addys medical struggles I hope I can remember.

Photo 1-2🍁: I’m thankful for the safety of being a mom and the adventures I get to go on . I know this isn’t the case for alot of mothers in this world . I don’t take that for granted or I try not too .

Photo 3: My little family 🥹 don’t have many words just happy tears.

Photo 4-7: Life saving machines like the ventilator , medical professional who took care of my baby last Christmas and saved her life , and surgeries like the Gtube that finally started to let my babies lungs heal and start to thrive .

Photo 8: My bike and not just a bike freedom to roam outdoors. Also the people that helped me get my bike 🥹

Photo 9: Finally finding my sport and feeling like I can be an athlete after trying every sport growing up and their not being a place in the sports for me . Finding cycling 🥹🥹aka no not soccer just found this picture and remember all the time I really just wanted to be a part of a sport .

Photo 10:Taylor my hubby 🥹🥹🥹🥹He’s my human and I’m grateful for him encouraging me to go after my dreams .

Photo 11: Mobility devices like my scooter from so I can actually enjoy my travel and adventures without having to stop adventuring or falling .

Photo 12: Beautiful places I’ve gotten to see on my bike .

Photo 13: Aunts and uncles and parents who love my kiddos 🥰

Photo 14-15: Best friends who just get me and we keep each other in line . Finding true friends can be tough but this year I’ve learned who my people are . You don’t need crowds of people , you just need a few loyal loving genuine friends .

Photo 16-17: The bond my girls have 🥹🥹🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

18/11/2024

Celebrating 24 years of friendship, I feel like having a friend that is still your best friend from middle school is so beautiful and rare. We’ve grown through darkness and laughter together all these years !

Only three weeks apart and I feel like this was the perfect way to celebrate 🦋 Growing up having a disability and friendships is another hard card to add to the table but you call me out on my s**t and know mh heart despite my imperfections, you came to me in my darkest days the last year without me having to even ask and all the years before, I laugh my true laugh the hardest with you, you are my ride or die friend! Heres to more growth and beauty my friend ! 24 more years plus 🦋

My friends on here that struggle with relationships and friendships I see you ! I’ve had some of my darkest days and felt like I couldn’t reach out because I didn’t want myself or my disability to burden others. You are not a burned ! You are beautiful and sometimes you have to go through the darkness to come out on the other side more beautiful! Don’t give up, beauty is just around the corner. Sometimes we have to walk or be in the dark before change like a butterfly.

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Yes it’s me! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Also I think I need a green windbreaker now ! 💚 I love my new pink windbreaker from @shredly 🩷 In all the meaning of cheesiness, cycling is how I feel like I can fly , when I feel the strongest! It’s like my broom 😆 Everyone deserves a chance to fly! I hope this year I can help someone else get more trails with @everybodyontrails ! . . #adventureinstyle #shredly #shredlyadventures

If you know , you know 😆 How do I tell my in-laws that eating turkey makes me want to bike not nap? Or maybe bike and then nap ? Hahah 😆 . . . #mtb #mtblife #mtblifestyle #cycling #cyclegram #bikelife

PART 2 of the whole Jordan River trail on my 36th birthday! I had a little emotional break down half way through. I call it half pain / half tired / half the birthday blues 😆 But I always like to keep it real here so here we go : Pros and cons of doing the whole Jordan River trail and a few things I learned too : ⚠️When you get to south salt lake and beyond BE careful and honestly I just would peddle and have that be your sprint in certain parts because it’s sketchy and obviously not something I filmed because I had a lot interesting interactions. 🦨 Watch out for critters and just leave them alone . 🧎‍♀️I was having some good knee pain but I surprisingly wasn’t as tired as I’d thought I’d be the next day. 💪🏻 cycling is just as much a mental game as it is physical. It’s what got me to finish the whole thing when my body was done and it’s what almost got me to stopping when I was struggling mentally when life things . 🫶🏻 Getting birthday texts for the people I love along the way was perfect . I wasn’t able to respond but I read them on my @apple watch as I went and it was super motivating. Would I do a long trail like this again? Yes but would I do this long one again ? No ! I’ll always do stretches of the Jordan River trail but it’s off my budget list now . I’ll keep to going towards my other ones .

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