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…

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. …

Last week we met for our support group and talked about how to approach the holidays when there can be a lot of temptations around food to break from healthy habits. Here are my top 8 strategies I take as I approach the holidays and look toward the next year. …

Do I have it and can I make it go away? And does it impact my breathing? — Brief summary from the National Jewish Health Metabolic Health Virtual Support Group on March 9 Good morning, friends! I’m up this morning, fired up, and it’s time to get caught up on 2 support groups that we have held in the past two months. Recently, we launched a metabolic health…