The Girl On Bike

“The boys teach me that being out here is what matters and the rider with the dirtiest bike at the end of the day probably had the most fun, and the least fear. Out here on a dirty bike, I’m learning that fear is my teacher. My fear helped me to see that I needed a way out, a better way, to make new choices for my happiness. It brought me here, to the end of a sidewalk and to the beginning of a new dirt path, inviting me to play.” -Colleen Hannegan There comes a moment in everyone’s life when stepping out into the unknown seems much safer than trying to survive a familiar place of pain and struggle. Such a moment arrived for Colleen Hannegan when her deepest desires for happiness and freedom forced her to run away from an increasingly violent marriage. Finding strength through the love of her family and friends, Colleen discovers the way back to her self when she takes a walk down to the end of the sidewalk near her new apartment and steps onto the dirt of a wilderness park. In Girl On Bike, Colleen shares her intimate journey of heartbreak and happiness when she buys a mountain bike and learns to ride the trails of Aliso and Woods Canyon Wilderness Park. Nature becomes her go-to-place for exciting adventure, new friends, emotional healing and romance. Struggling to run her retail business alone, fighting to maintain her self-respect through divorce court and continual calls to the sheriff for protection, Colleen rides the wilderness park each Sunday to hold it all together. The story of a girl on a bike will have you riding along the single-track trails and wanting to discover nature’s magic elixir of your own, as you follow this exciting story of one woman’s unrelenting rides into the truth she knows will set her free. Every trail adventure takes you along the bumpy…