Three-time cancer survivor to bike cross-country with Lance Armstrong

Published: 2004-08-27

ELKRIDGE, Md. (CNS) -- Thirty-four-year-old Kristen Adelman knows what it's like to fight. Whether it's running a 100-mile race in the mountainous region of Loudenville, Ohio, as she did this June, or outracing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma three times in the past four years, the parishioner and teacher at St. Augustine in Elkridge has demonstrated tenacity, a remarkable zest for life and strong faith. "If your mind can conceive it, your body can achieve it" is the motto of the 5-foot-6-inch teacher with curly dark-brown hair and a ready smile. The next step in her journey is a cross-country bike tour with cyclist Lance Armstrong and other cancer survivors, doctors and nurses. Called the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope, the tour begins Oct. 1 in Los Angeles and will conclude 3,500 miles later on Oct. 9 in Washington. Adelman, who teaches physical education, algebra and religion at St. Augustine School, was 30 and in great shape when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2000.

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