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Our 10th Anniversary Women of Distinction
Don’t Let Your Dreams in half marathons. He invited
me to the Challenged Athletes
PA SS Y OU BY Foundation charity fundraising
ride in October 2012.
While training, Coach
John, who had held the paced
By Sharon Hightower bicycle land speed record from
1985-1995 at 152mph, noticed
that the spark and inner drive
Photos courtesy of Denise Mueller I’d had when I was a teenager
was still there. He told me that
always had a healthy lifestyle no woman had ever gone after
and used to jog. In 1986 his the paced bicycle land speed
father bought my Dad and I a record that men have done
couple of mountain bicycles. In since 1899.
early 1987 we entered a local I immediately said I wanted
charity bike ride, and I was to do it and we spent the next
hooked. I enjoyed being able to four years putting the plan
push myself. in place for me to be the first
We did multiple charity woman to set the paced bicycle
rides that year and met two land speed record at 147mph
bicycle coaches that I began on September 12, 2016, at the
working with, John Howard Bonneville Salt Flats during the
and Doreen Smith-Williams. World of Speed event.
I entered my first bicycle race After setting the record, we
in September 1987 and won planned to do a day of record
and got hooked on racing, too. runs to up the speed record,
I raced for five years and won but it had rained overnight.
13 national cycling titles and Frustrated at not being able to
150 mph – on a bicycle? Yep. Read received two podiums at the realize more, we said we would
about the fascinating woman and World Championships. go back another year to go after
the overall record of 167 mph!
I hung the bike up af-
her amazing accomplishments. In ter high school and entered Well, we planned for 2017 but
her own words: the family business after my had to move the attempt to
parents’ divorce. I met my first 2018.
husband there and took over Then we discovered that
the leadership of the business the Hoehn Range Rover vehicle
in the early 1990’s. we used in 2016 would not be
We had three children available, so we were back at
WAS BORN IN ARIZONA, and worked in the business square one in preparation.
I ut I have been a San Diego for almost 20 years. Much like Also, 2017 turned out to
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girl since I was nine months in bicycle racing, there were be one heck of a year. Not only
old. I grew up in Encinitas and ups and downs in business. In did I break bones in February,
graduated from San Dieguito 2012 my husband and I di- but I also met and married
High School. I learned dedica- vorced and ironically that was the man of my dreams, Chris
tion as I watched my parents the year I also got back on the Korenek, in 111 days, ran the
give so much to grow their bicycle. I had reconnected with Great Wall of China Marathon
business, Rancho Santa Fe Se- my coach John Howard who in May, and was shot in my
curity Systems. My father had worked with one of my sons right leg with a 9mm bullet in
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