When I was 14, while sitting in my math class, it dawned on me that I wasn’t going to make the NHL.  For the better part of 10 years I just assumed that playing left-wing for the Leafs (I am now a reformed Sens fan) was my destiny.  Being 5’6″ and 150lbs, and a third liner […]

“We came here with a bit of a ‘rag-tag’ team,” said Brent Bookwalter to the media corp at the final press conference of the Tour of Utah.  I was sitting beside Bookwalter when he said this about his team (BMC), a team whose budget is well over 10 times that of Optum’s, and that had […]

“Hey, you know Woods right?”  said an acquaintance of mine to my former coach, and good friend, Nick Vipond. “Well tell him, ever since he started writing for Cyclingnews, his blogs have been shit.  Tell him he has sold out.”  This information, likely said in jest, was relayed to me two weeks ago, while sitting […]

If you are only as good as your last race, then I ain’t that good. Tour of California (TOC), a race that I marked on my calendar at the start of the season with more than a few exclamation points, went pretty shitty. When I say shitty, I mean both figuratively and literally. There was […]

“Dude, calm down,” said my team director, Jonas Carney, as I hobbled into the pit of the Redlands Bicycle Classic Criterium.   I was angry.  Only minutes earlier I had consumed a Clif caffeinated gel, and its effects were kicking in right when I had originally hoped.  This shot of caffeine, combined with the onset of […]

This past Tuesday, I was riding a long the Portuguese coast, with the sun on my back, and the wind on my tail, and despite everything in the world going my way, I couldn’t help but feel like crap. I guess, this is what happens when you manage to deplete every last vestige of serotonin in […]