Hi friends, I’m here training in the Netherlands at this state of the art compound with an indoor ski facility where they built a beautiful banked slalom course. It’s pretty awesome, you’re wearing shorts one minute, next you suit up and get inside this “freezer box.” Super grateful to be here, it’s my 3rd time, and I was thinking I’ve come a long way in snowboarding. I never needed to prove anything to anyone, but since I had my accident, I’ve been...
As I mentioned in my last post, the winter training season is all about long hours on an indoor trainer and trying to find ways to stay engaged and push hard when you need to. Yesterday's answer to that was a 130km race after a good 25 minute warm up. I wanted to pace myself and think about the ride as steady endurance ride. So I let the first 4 attacks go and stuck with the main peloton. At about...
The 2023 paracycling world championships was held in Glasgow Scotland and I was excited to be able to compete in my second world championships wearing my countries colors. My first time competing for Team USA was 2021 in Portugal. Unlike my first time in Portugal I am was in much better shape and a different classification. Upon arriving in Scotland I noticed the weather was actually better than I imagined it...
It's the day before Halloween here in AZ where it is in the 80's still for day high's and the 50's for low's. The weather is perfect! It is time to get back outside on the racing bike. I have been strength training and riding my ebike outside since the last week of August. I'll ride an hour to hour and a half with occasional intervals. Getting out on my ebike is nice and a change. Teaching has been keeping...
Wow! Scotland Super Worlds were amazing! Such a beautiful country with amazing racing opportunities. I return with two 7th place finishes and a bronze medal! I feel blessed to have that opportunity and to return feeling like I had some of my best performances of my career. Wrapping up with the relay in downtown Glasgow was a blast to see live video of the race up on build boards throughout the city and a crowd there to cheer us on....
This blog is a little late but time flies when you ride full time and work 2 jobs. Life can get away from us sometimes. Well, this year has been quite the experience and I'm eager to see what else is in store. This seems to be a recurring thing now that I'm going to the world cup in Oostende Belgium and doing well. Last year, I had one of my first ever world...
We are in the final two weeks of training before heading to this year's World Championships in Glasgow. This will be the biggest world championship event in decades as all cycling disciplines will be together in one location at the same time. Mindset is key, I'm continuing to use visualization to get the most out of my training. I'm focused on training myself to view certain threshold efforts on the bike as something I can do easily. This allows me...
Hey guys, I wanted to open up about the “butterflies” I had before the races. It’s all to be expected; to be in that huge stage, huge courses, cameras everywhere, the atmosphere is electric, maybe you couldn’t tell from looking at me (dancing with the coach, trying to keep my mind relaxed) but my legs were SHAKING! Take for instance the Banked Slalom race: I did well on the last day of training pre race, was relaxed, put in some good & fast...
I have officially been named to this year’s World Championships roster! This feels like one of my biggest achievements yet for a few reasons. First, this will be the first time ALL cycling disciplines (the pros, etc.) come together in one location, at the same time. Secondly, I had my doubts at the beginning of the season as the standard time for my class (the time that is used to benchmark one disability classification again others to determine who gets...
A couple months ago Coach Mancha & I were re-living our journey from Canada to the Paralympics. It was sooo long that I felt like writing this post, so I wouldn’t forget. Number 1. For context, during Covid, China required PCR & rapid tests taken 72 hours apart, from specific approved laboratories. We were in the middle of nowhere in a little mountain town, so getting to their requested labs for testing required taking a taxi or shuttle, an...
