Grasshopper Adventure Series

This week's piece is titled, "On the Nature of Ambition." It first appeared on Red Kite Prayer in 2017.  I never took up cycling to learn anything. I…

I never took up cycling to learn anything. I started riding bikes because it was fun. That was enough. But I began to see that as I learned more about the…

This week is a tandem episode and my guest is Miguel Crawford, the organizer of the Grasshopper Adventure Series. The Grasshopper Series began back in the…

This week John talks winter riding. Actual winter, not the imitation stuff some folks have had this year. He looks at some of the considerations necessary to…

Our hapless hero takes a crash course in re-establishing fitness. I come around a bend and I see before me the trail running to a tree root and then…

This week Selene takes on a listener question regarding some of the online training challenges that cause competitors to go into zone 5 with each installment.…

Last weekend, Selene rode the Lu Lacka Wyco Hundo, a 100-mile ride in northeaster Pennsylvania with its share of dirt roads, steep hills and, on this day,…

Pennsylvania in spring is a good place to be a cyclist. The landscape glows in technicolor and the events can be unusual with equal doses of nutty, fun and…

How do you eat? This isn't a question about whether or not you chew, but what do you fuel with? Selene talked to Hannah Grant, the author of Eat. Race. Win. a…

After a brief hiatus, the Paceline is back in a slightly different format. Fatty has a new Leadville podcast he's producing, and as one of only eight people to…