Less than one day to go I have pondered the idea of riding the Colorado Trail since I moved to Colorado. It was an idea in the air like a firefly floating overhead, as Peloton coach, Christine, talked about in one of her of her reflection rides. Then we faced…

This past week has been filled with final prep work for the Colorado Trail race — from making sure I am caught up at work and with clinic, to my last ICU call shift (and post-call recovery) until after the race, to final errands and supplies. With help from Pedal…

Co2uT Desert Gravel, Utah Raptor 125 May 14, 2023 When we try our hardest, we don’t always win. Sometimes we end far from the podium, but we always learn, and if we’re lucky, we discover something new about ourselves. This is a big reason I ride my bike. I have…

Race Report What do 18 hours on a mountain bike in Fruita add up to? 134.8 miles, 8517 feet of climbing, over 4100 calories consumed, too many water bottles to count (but at least 12), And… A breakthrough. May 5–6, 2023 Highline Lake State Park Fruita, Colorado You gotta have a plan. I have set some pretty big goals this year, including the Colorado Trail Race this summer and an even bigger event next year, and the first “A race” of the season was 18 Hours of Fruita. To prepare for…

Being an ultra athlete is about minding transition time Coming home from Idaho, having truly enjoyed the Fat Pursuit Workshop, and wanting to continue living in the headspace of adventure, I downloaded and listened to the audiobook, Rusch to Glory, by one of our workshop coaches, Rebecca Rusch. …

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because these words are not a part of a speech transcript, and quite challenging to find the source citation to this oft-cited quote, Dr. Quentin Young recalled that…

In the first week in January I traveled to a bikepacking camp in Idaho. Seeking to start off 2023 with a frame shift and something quite literally completely out of my comfort zone, I signed up last Fall for the Fat Pursuit 60 km fat bike event and the bikepacking…

When the movie, The Matrix, was released in 1999, it described a dystopian world in which people’s minds lived in a world of artificial intelligence (AI) while their bodies were used to fuel the AI machine. There is a pivotal moment when Morpheus, leader of a rebel movement, interacts with…

I’ve set a goal to race the Fat Pursuit in January, and the work to get there starts now, each and every day, as I return to life as a fat-adapted athlete. …