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I've ridden on sprained ankles. I rode two full seasons with a screaming case of IT band friction syndrome (ITBFS...which is preferable to IBS). And I've ridden with head and…

First of all, these are not all the spring races, and not even all the spring races that some people consider classics, like E3 Harelbeke for example. This is my list, based…

The perfect storm began oh so quietly, sneaking up on me like my Golden Lab when I open the fridge. Monday morning dawns and oddly enough I find no substitute teaching…

Someone smart once said to me that self-deprecation and an outsize sense of responsibility were expressions of ego. Just as one who always sees themselves as the best has an…

It's billed as the toughest cyclocross race in the world, but the Three Peaks Cyclocross is not like any cyclocross race you've seen, and it's not like any gravel race you've…

In Rome, along the banks of the Tiber, they wear togas and garlands made of laurel on their heads. It's hot there, and sandals are popular. It's a rich culture, there in…

I hate being cold. You might surmise it reminds me too much of my childhood winters in Wisconsin. Back then my parents would snatch us from school and drive to Florida…

This piece appeared on Red Kite Prayer in 2010. I was reminded of it by a moth clung to the side of the house the other day, and when I found the piece and blew the dust off…

Here's a charming little profile of one of the many gravel events that's sprung up from nothing in the last decade or so. The Heck of the North takes place in northern…

Honest to golly, I pictured Fez's face as I sat on the small couch we have in our kitchen, the coffee warm in my hand but not yet raising my spirits. I had been thinking…