{"id":7844,"date":"2025-04-11T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:47:43","slug":"3rd-annual-os-cool-bike-ride-and-walk-coming-to-troy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/04\/11\/3rd-annual-os-cool-bike-ride-and-walk-coming-to-troy\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd annual O&#8217;s Cool Bike Ride and Walk coming to Troy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 For the third year, <a href=\"https:\/\/oscoolbikefoundation.org\/memorial-ride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">O&#8217;s Cool Bike Ride and Walk<\/a> will honor the memory of Owen Wayne Lewis, and raise money to support local children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organized by Heather and Onick Lewis, the event honors the memory of their late son, Owen, who passed away at three years old from Lymphocytic Myocarditis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;He loved the outdoors, especially going for rides on his &#8216;cool&#8217; bike with his daddy, Onick. Owen received his first bike, a balance bike, for his first Christmas at only two months old. By the time he was 17 months old, he was riding his balance bike.&#8221;<\/p><cite>O&#8217;s Cool Bike Foundation<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After Owen&#8217;s death, Heather and Onick created <a href=\"https:\/\/oscoolbikefoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">O&#8217;s Cool Bike Foundation<\/a>, which works to provide bikes to local area children through Head Start programs and fund the Owen Wayne Lewis Memorial Scholarship at Troy University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/04\/30\/os-cool-bike-ride-remembers-owen-wayne-lewis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WATCH: O\u2019s Cool Bike Ride remembers Owen Wayne Lewis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s walk and ride will be held on Saturday, April 26. There are multiple ride lengths available:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/41223046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">T-Rex Tour<\/a> (64 miles)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/41222874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stegosaurus Stomp<\/a> (45 miles)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/41223121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Triceratops Trek<\/a> (34 miles)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/41271479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Raptor Trot\/Ride<\/a> (1.2 mile laps around campus)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Little T-Rex Ride (designed for riders just learning to ride their balance bikes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All routes will begin on campus. Longer distance rides will travel through Troy and onto rolling terrain within Pike County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those unable to attend in person, there is a virtual option available as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 For the third year, O&#8217;s Cool Bike Ride and Walk will honor the memory of Owen Wayne Lewis, and raise money to support local children.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by Heather and Onick Lewis, the event honors the memory of their late son, Owen, who passed away at three years old from Lymphocytic Myocarditis&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/04\/11\/3rd-annual-os-cool-bike-ride-and-walk-coming-to-troy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":7847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1125,35],"tags":[2190,1579,2189,2191,2193,2192],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-trojan-talk","tag-heather-lewis","tag-os-cool-bike-foundation","tag-os-cool-bike-ride-and-walk","tag-onick-lewis","tag-owen-lewis","tag-owen-wayne-lewis-memorial-scholarship","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}