MDBR 2025. Imagine a sugar cube-sized piece of our brain. Within this small segment of neuronal tissue, the total length of nerve fibers amounts to approximately 70 miles. This is exactly the distance I rode for the 2025 Million Dollar Bike Ride last Saturday as a member of Lulu’s Crew. Here is my blog post on a different kind of fundraising for rare disease research, the type of advocacy that has raised more than a million dollars for STXBP1 in the last seven years while making your legs feel like Jello.