Kathryn Taylor
Kathryn is a triathlete turned gravel cyclist and general lover of all types of outdoor adventures. Kathryn has coached triathletes for the past 5 years and has a passion for helping newbies get involved in sports. After a bad bike accident while training for the 70.3 World Championship race, she started spending more time off the beaten path - both in trail running and gravel cycling.
After working for a bike shop for two years, she was frustrated to see how women were treated within the industry. After a few too many glasses of wine and an angry rant to her friend Lauren, Girls Gone Gravel was born.
She has been published in USA Triathlon Magazine, Cycling Tips and has been a regular contributor for Triathlete Magazine articles. She works full-time for Feisty Media as a brand manager, helping active, performance-minded women find the resources they need to do the things they love.
Kathryn co-hosts the Girls Gone Gravel podcast with Kristi Mohn. In her free time, you can find her exploring new trails in the Tacoma, WA area.
Kristi Mohn
Kristi started riding gravel back in 2004 in Emporia, Kansas. She joked that there are 3 road rides and 300 gravel routes. Since then, Mohn has worked as a race director for Unbound Gravel, the massively popular and massively hard gravel race in Kansas, and on the “200 Women 200 Miles” initiative at the race.
Kristi continues to work with Life Time on the gravel event series and is also establishing a series of gravel houses for people who are ready to adventure off-the-beaten-path.
Kristi still calls Emporia home alongside her husband Tim and her grown twins, Sidney and Mason.
Claire Colbert
Claire is a gravel cyclist, triathlete, and new-ish mountain biker. She started riding bikes as a kid and never stopped! After college, a coworker suggested she try triathlon, but it didn’t take long to realize that the best part of a triathlon is the bike :)
So not too long after that she bought a gravel bike and now competes in both triathlons & gravel races and loves getting more women on bikes!
When she’s not riding, she can usually be found hanging out with her two rescue dogs, Chipper and Razzy.
Lauren giles
Inspired by a few too many beers and a podcast featuring Alison Tetrick, reformed runner Lauren Giles signed up for the 2018 Dirty Kanza 200 as her first bike race. Having survived that experience, she now competes for the all-female Sorella Cycling team, and has had a number of podium finishes in road and gravel events, including wins in the open women’s division of the 2018 Hellhole Gravel Grind Stage Race and the 2019 Middle Georgia Epic 100KM. When she’s not on the bike, she dabbles in freelance writing, and has been published by Bicycling and SOFlete.com. She’s a terrible MTBer, obsessive pro cycling fan, and mother to a 4-year-old West Highland Terrier named Archie.
Trish Albert
photo by Weldon Weaver
Trish started riding and racing mountain bikes in 1996. Soon thereafter she was enthralled by cyclocross and never looked back. She is known throughout the south for her technical skills and ability to ride anything on a cyclocross course. While dirt is home, Trish also races at the the track/velodrome specializing in sprint events and is a 12 time medalist at the Masters National Track Championships. She also enjoys giving back by conducting cyclocross clinics, helping new riders, and being on the board of directors for the Georgia Cross Series. Trish is also a member of the Sorella Cycling Race Team.
Trish runs Southeastern Cycling, a website that covers racing in the Southeast USA and photographs pro road cycling and cyclocross when she gets the chance. Trish has no pets but want a couple of miniature horses in her backyard one day.
Teri Danielson
Teri started riding bikes for fitness on the mountain bike trails in northern Wisconsin. In 2013, the family moved to Atlanta and she started adding weekly Silver Comet Trail miles to the single track mountain bike rides. When she joined the Sorella Cycling Women’s Bike Club and found herself surrounded by the love of biking, this lead to better fitness and the addition of a road bike.
Over the years, Teri participated in a variety of off-road cycling races and enjoyed meeting women in the cycling community. Being an advocate for women on bikes became a passion. Teri is currently the Ride Coordinator for Sorella Cycling and enjoys bringing Sorellas, fellas and friends together for group rides. She loves to introduce new riders to mountain biking, gravel adventures and riding around the beautiful backroads in and out of Atlanta.
Teri enjoys cycling adventures with her husband and has a daughter in college in Colorado (a great reason to head to the mountains!).