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Originally published in the Lowell Ledger 4/19/23 WARNING: Trying to keep up with Kate Brim can lead to amazement, jet lag, fatigue, wonderment, and the overuse of the word “Wow.”. For those of you new to her story, Kate has taken her love of para-cycling from the streets of Lowell to the mountains of Colorado, the desert around Phoenix, AZ and across the ocean to Maniago, Italy where she just blew by the competition in three days of road racing and time trials there. Did we mention her appearance in the Corewell Health Super Bowl ad “Can We”? Did you know she has been named an Ambassador for Team Novo Nordisk? If that were not enough, she took time to go to Las Vegas for some national competition with the Grand Rapids Thunder rugby team. How about we slow down a bit and dive a little deeper into the last few months of our favorite Olympian. To say Kate was over the moon excited when she was accepted as a member of Team USA would be selling her reaction short. The timing of finally get...

Originally published in the Lowell Ledger, August 2022  You can follow Kate's adventures on her Facebook Page: KATE BRIM ON FACEBOOK Katie Brim – The Rest of the Story Katie did, yes she did. Hopefully you read our coverage of Katie Brim when she was on her way to Canada to compete in the UCI 2022 Para Cycling World Cup held in Quebec City, Canada August 4-7 followed by the 2022 Road World Champions August 11-14 in Baie Comeau, Canada. Katie surely did – she came home with four gold medals from the four races she competed in. She won the Time Trial and Road Race for the World Cup and did the same in the Road World Champions four days later. In the time trials, the racers compete alone and the road races pit them against each other. Not only did she win all four, but she finished 10 minutes and 39 seconds ahead of second place in Quebec City and 11 minutes and 9 seconds ahead in Baie Comeau. Fun fact about Katie, she enjoys pedaling her bike uphill more than any other aspect of t...

 Katie Brim Is Going International By the time you read this, Lowell resident Katie Brim will be on her way to compete in her first ever international para-cycling competition. Katie will be a member of Team USA and they will be competing in two events put on by the UCI (Union Cycliste International). The first is the UCI 2022 Para Cycling World Cup that will be held in Quebec City, Canada August 4-7 followed by the 2022 Road World Champions August 11-14 in Baie Comeau, Canada. “I am extremely nervous and excited for this amazing opportunity as this will be my first time racing internationally,” Brim stated. “I am going into these races like I have every race I have done this year and that is to do the best that I personally can do and learn as much as I can.” You may have seen Katie whiz by on her low slung hand powered racing bike. She rides/trains six days a week on the roads around Lowell and Ionia. Nasty weather doesn’t slow her down a bit because she has a stationary smart tr...