After flights to four different continents and 7+ countries in the past three years, and only a few disasters, I have learned a thing or two about how to bring your bike on a plane. (more...) [2 comments]
I think perhaps my personal highlight of the entire weekend was the last stage, the famed Stage 8. This wasn’t my favorite course in practice, but in the race the heavens opened up in a purely spectacular fashion about three minutes into my run. (more...) [0 comments]
As someone said to me recently — “It’s only bike racing, but my god, it can break you.” And this weekend, it almost broke me. (more...) [9 comments]
Sometimes when I’m in the US or traveling somewhere else in the world, I feel a little silly about constantly waxing poetic about New Zealand. I mean, it’s great, right, but how can any place be THAT great? Clearly, I’ve … (more...) [4 comments]
You know that moment when you say something and then you immediately realize that by saying it you’ve doomed yourself and it’s too late to do anything about it (except, perhaps, knocking on wood, but we all know how well … (more...) [3 comments]
If I can ride a moped through rush hour traffic in Chiang Mai, shouldn’t I be able to, with practice and effort, sing a damn harmony line? (more...) [4 comments]
The story I am about to tell you is not THE ultimate nightmare, but it is MY personal nightmare, one that has plagued my dreams in many forms for years and that finally came alive on a Tuesday in October in Palermo, Italy. (more...) [6 comments]
Update on my life for the past month. Also, Macky and I take a stab at vlogging. (more...) [2 comments]
I seem to be taking the term “off-season” far too literally and just switching off all my mental faculties. (more...) [6 comments]