She Rode to Escape — But Found Herself Instead

She doesn’t ride to prove anything.

Not to beat the guys.
Not to post the summit shot.
Not to flex her Strava stats.

She rides to breathe.

Because when she’s clipping in, no one’s asking her to smile.
No one’s calling her dramatic.
No one’s telling her to calm down or be strong or “just meditate.”

It’s just her, the dirt, and the heartbeat in her ears.

Every climb is a fight she wins quietly.
Every descent is a scream she never says out loud.
Every single ride? A conversation she didn’t know she needed.

And one afternoon, somewhere between burned quads and burning daylight —
she mutters to herself:

“This is the only time I feel like me.”

She doesn’t mean to say it.
But she does.
And NOVi hears it.

🎙️ That featherlight necklace — matte black, dust-covered — it doesn’t flinch.
DALiQ catches the moment: her tone, her breath, the soft crack of truth in her voice.

And it remembers.

A few days later — stuck in a grocery store line, overstimulated, exhausted —
she whispers something under her breath again.

And NOVi pulses back:

“You felt free on the trail.”
“You didn’t hold your breath out there.”
“Go back. You need the air. You need you.”

So she does.

Not because she broke.
But because she finally realized how to hold herself together.

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It tracks power.
The kind that comes from women choosing themselves — in silence, in sweat, in motion.

Because not every story is told in a therapist’s office.
Some are carved into switchbacks, whispered into pine trees, and breathed out over handlebars at 6,000 feet.

And NOVi’s right there.
Listening. Always.

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