When To Quit a Bike Race | 30 Mar 2017
This was a race to see how hard I was willing to push myself simply to finish a race. (more...) [4 comments]
This was a race to see how hard I was willing to push myself simply to finish a race. (more...) [4 comments]
Last year, I let racing get under my skin. I let it undermine the things that I love about riding bikes and training and being an athlete. I let myself think that I deserved better, when in fact, I have so much already. (more...) [4 comments]
The lesson I’ve been learning this year is that being tough, while admirable, does not make you fast. And also, and perhaps more importantly, I’m already tough enough. (more...) [15 comments]
With racing, there are good days and bad days. What no one ever tells you, though, is that there are also a hell of a lot of “other days” that are neither totally good nor totally bad. (more...) [3 comments]
This is going to be a short post. On Sunday, I had what was easily the scariest mountain bike crash of my life. While I’m tempted to moan about how this year really seems to be trying to crush my … (more...) [2 comments]
I made myself a promise — I would just do the best I could under the circumstances. And I would accept (and forgive myself) if my best wasn’t actually that good. (more...) [0 comments]
All-in-all, another challenging, frustrating, enlightening, empowering EWS weekend down. (more...) [0 comments]
This past week was not what I was expecting. EWS races usually aren’t, but I do admit I sort of thought I had an idea of what I was getting into this year. Wrong again, oh well. This time, instead of being shocked by the sheer treachery of the tracks, I was absolutely blindsided by the amount of climbing. (more...) [0 comments]
This was definitely a race, but it was more about the experience, the people, the magic of being high in the mountains and riding your bike fast. (more...) [3 comments]