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There are too many of them to put on a poster or on the side of a milk carton. And it's not that they were taken, or that they ran away, it's that they never existed. And…

As I said on the Paceline yesterday, I believe sports are just character-driven narrative, and since I spent so much time breaking down the men's Tour on that show, I was…

Life is charmingly strange sometimes. For example, here are some seemingly disparate facts of my existence that converged recently and begat the interview that follows. …

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of my bike ride from San Francisco to Carlsbad. A full moon neared dipping behind the Western horizon, lighting up the…

Background: We had little resources for bike gear…after all it was college days.   Lance, my buddy and main training partner bought a pair of expensive shorts. He saved…

ESPN released their two-part, three-and-a-half-hour Lance Armstrong documentary, Lance, in 2020, but I just got around to watching it on Netflix. Maybe it just arrived there.…

I'm fond of saying that the bike is as near to a panacea as humanity has yet discovered, good as a treatment for both individual maladies and societal problems. Here's a…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a series of my bike ride from San Francisco to Carlsbad. The true essence of cycling, like life, lies in discovery. The first bike…

Last week I wrote about language and terms. Specifically, some terms that I personally use to describe a bike ride and the environment. To review: Butter Smooth. Used…

Last week I mentioned my Welsh grandfather, the dairy farmer. He was a gardener in his later years. That was his real passion, rows of peas and beans, a bed of potatoes, some…