Wounded and ill soldiers ride from Fort Knox to Fort Campbell

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Wounded, injured and ill soldiers from Fort Campbell and Fort Knox, Ky. will participate in the third annual Bluegrass Rendezvous Bike Ride Sept. 16-18.

This is a therapeutic and challenging ride between the two military installations within the Bluegrass State made available to soldiers assigned to the Warrior Transition Units.

The annual bike ride is one of many adaptive reconditioning outreach opportunities for soldiers to get involved, outside of their routine adaptive reconditioning workouts while assigned to the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Campbell. Soldiers in a Warrior Transition Unit are going through the recovery and transition process, working to return back to active duty or transition to civilian life.

“The Bluegrass Rendezvous Bike Ride has become an annual event our Fort Campbell soldiers look forward to,” said Warrior Transition Battalion commander Lt. Col. Chip Finley. “They are riding with many of their leaders and supporters right beside them. It is focused on the physical and emotional healing of our Soldiers – instilling the confidence that they can succeed through adaptive physical fitness, regardless of their medical conditions.”

Soldiers will be riding standard bicycles, hand cycles, recumbent, and tandem bikes, accommodating each unique Soldier and emphasizing the Soldiers’ abilities.

The community is welcome along the route to cheer on soldiers and their supporters as they ride the last leg of the 167-mile bike ride Friday, Sept. 18. The bikers are scheduled to leave the High Road Exxon Service Station in Guthrie, Ky. at 12:30 p.m. They will ride on Tylertown Road to Trenton Road before turning onto Tiny Town Road and Fort Campbell Boulevard. Soldiers will enter Fort Campbell’s Gate 4 at approximately 1:30 p.m. and pass by the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell Division Headquarters before riding through the finish line at the WTB complex.

The Clarksville Police Department will provide an escort for the riders from Tylertown Road through the rest of the route.