Op-Ed

We've talked about food a bit recently. I like food. Food tastes good. But you know, once you establish some bad habits, they're hard to break. That's what makes eating…

I know the pain you're feeling right now. I know the disappointment. I know the overwhelming conviction that she's suffering a complete miscarriage of justice. I know how you…

Most of my riding of late is with friends, rather than the meditative solo rambling I gravitate to naturally. Riding with other people means riding a little faster and a…

If you ride, you crash. This we know. Last year alone I had three bad ones. You know the kind I mean. Not just “managed exits” that leave your friends laughing and hoping the…

There are days when I want calm, want remove, want to shut much of the world away. Like cutting fat from meat, I eliminate email, social media, the phone, the to-do list, the…

I am over-biked. That's a term I just made up, and it means that I have nicer bikes than my talent, speed, stamina, etc. could ever justify. That's if you believe that you…

This is how reckless I am. I had to look up where the race was. It's next weekend. My wife laughed and asked how it is I do this to myself, and I explained that I try…

I was a lazy kid. I want that out front lest my parents read this and think I'm trying to pass myself off as some paragon of mental fortitude. I shirked with world-class…

In my lines of work (many lines, too many lines), there isn't anything like a true vacation. I might be away from home, with my family, in a place where ice cream and…

I don't concern myself, overly much, with what other people are doing. I guess I pay attention to my friends, and I follow the antics of a few of cycling's more interesting…