Cycling legend Rebecca Rusch is known for a lot of things: her four Leadville Trail 100 MTB wins, her Unbound victory, and her seven total world champion titles across multiple sports such as biking and skiing. Some may even know Rusch for her Emmy win for her cycling-focused documentary, Blood Road. But few have known the trials Rusch has gone through to overcome a concussion-turned-life-altering-brain-injury the past few years.
"For the last couple of years, I’ve been silently weathering a dark and tumultuous storm, suffering the invisible injury of a mild concussion from a bike crash that broke my helmet and my spirit," the so-called Queen of Pain shares. "At the time of my crash, I had little knowledge about concussion recovery other than “rest, stay off screens and you’ll be fine in a couple of weeks.”
