Who is this girl

Deanna Adams is a crazy vegan bike riding 20-year-old who has a passion to be the youngest female to accomplish many different ultra races! She wants to send the message that having epilepsy shouldn't hold you back from fulfilling your goals and dreams. The wrist band she wears sums up her outlook on life that "Doubt Kills Dreams". These "Doubt Kills Dreams" wrist bands were made as an on-going attempt to raise money so that she can have the means to participate in races. 

                (If interested in owning one just leave a comment with your e-mail!)

At 10-years-old she was diagnosed with epilepsy having grand mal seizures at school, at home, in the shower, etc. Her grand mal seizures can last anywhere between 1-5 minutes where she has a loss of consciousness and has violent muscle contractions. Having Epilepsy has affected her in many different ways from the first Neurologist suggesting that she might grow out of it during puberty and that not happening. To her current Epitologist who explains that it is the way her brain is wired. The tormenting question of why me? Then the embarrassment and anxiety that occurred hoping it wouldn't happen at school.  In middle school she got called "seizure shaking girl" because her classmates were present while she had seizures with a bloody mouth afterward. And then in high school she was remembered as the "weirdo epileptic bike girl" since she chose to ride her bike 20 miles a day from the house to school. (She still chooses to not have a driver's license because she doesn't want to take a chance of hurting someone.)

In High School Deanna was on the cross country running team, and was introduced to mountain biking by one of her friends. The opportunities to mountain bike are plentiful living in Prescott, AZ so it was a great place for her passion to bloom and she began to race competitively.  After she graduated from High School she raced in a few adventure mountain bike races while running cross county for Mesa Community College.

Then in August 2007, Deanna entered her first road race cycle event, the 200 miles Desperado Dual. Notice her one-of-a-kind outfit in the photo below..she wore her jansport school backpack for water, a lime green bandana, mountain bike clip-in shoes that were held together with duck tape, and running shorts. (To this day she still refuses to wear tight spandex shorts with butt padding.) I asked her, "Um are you sure you got this? You have never ridden 200 miles before....(she knods her head). Well, I guess we will see you at lunch if they have anything you can eat (she is a vegan who eat no meat and dairy, or uses any by-product of an animal). Good luck riding 200 miles!" She finished with a time of 13:57 not pace lining or drafting. I was so impressed that my sister would have the desire to ride her bike for that long and that far! But that was just the beginning....