I’ve been struggling to process MTB Ayiti. It was hard and amazing and uncomfortable and frustrating and wonderful. As is usually the case, someone else got it more right than I ever will. Tommy prefaced this Facebook post by noting that he was “not a writer”. After reading this, I beg to differ. Tommy Southerland [...]
Continue ReadingMTB Ayiti Stage One: Mosaics!
It’s hard to overstate how dynamic and ambitious the MTB Ayiti project is. It’s a bike race, sure, but the overall vision reaches far beyond competition or shredding gnarly trails. At the end of the day, founder Philip Kiracofe’s dream is to create an entire system of trails that spans the vast mountainous regions of [...]
Continue ReadingOh hi, Haiti.
I’ve been called out. I know, my new year’s resolution to blog twice a week is off to a dubious start. That said, I’m crushing my other resolutions. 66% isn’t really even a D+ but 2 outa 3 ain’t bad? I don’t know. Either way, I’m sitting in seat 34A waiting for the departure of [...]
Continue ReadingIs it already January?
It is. It is January already. How did that happen? Nevermind. It’s time for that thing that we do every time a year ticks over because we like the feeling of a specific (yet arbitrary) starting line. Despite the fact that you can do this any any point – at any single moment – in [...]
Continue ReadingIra Ryan + Ned Ludd = Amazing Market Bike
I just spent an amazing Saturday morning tagging along with Chef Jason French of Ned Ludd restaurant. Officially, I was gathering images and information for an upcoming Peloton Magazine story about the market bike that Ira Ryan built (in collaboration with Trucker Racks and Tanner Goods) for French to take to the Farmer’s Market every [...]
Continue Reading35 Years.
Today is my 35th birthday. This means nothing. Except that now, psychologically, I’m on my way to 40 instead of enjoying my early 30s. I’m not afraid of any of this. I’ll tell you why. Actually, I’ll let Steven Pressfield tell you why. He summed it up quite well in Turning Pro (A follow up [...]
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