Since 2019, I have turned my focus towards marathon mountain bike races, generally competing in events ranging from three to eight hours in length. As such, my training centers around developing a strong “diesel” engine: a steady sweet-spot pace that I can maintain for hours at a time, putting in hard efforts for the occasional…
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Now Offering Coaching!
Since “retiring” from the classroom this June, I have been pursuing education and certification as a cycling coach and am excited to start working with athletes to help them meet their goals. I’ve been personally working with a coach since 2018, when I first started racing, and I’m thrilled to be able to share the…
I Belong Here
For a year, I started pro/elite races with the nagging feeling that I was an imposter, an outsider: that I didn’t belong. I didn’t really have my pro card, I was just registering in the pro/open races that allowed for non-pros to race in the open category alongside the “real pros.” Even in Cat. 1…
