Bike Blog

A Work Anniversary and a Canceled Death March

Mar 16, 2025

Last week was a BIG WEEK here in Carville Legal Land. Last week was the culmination of five years of life as a solo practitioner. Many of you, in fact all of you, could be forgiven if you wanted to forget Friday, March 13, 2020. That Friday was a simultaneously ominous and auspicious day for me.

I Have Stopped Racing and Started Doing "Projects" (But Not Around the House)

Jul 24, 2023

I listened to The Gravel Lot podcast with famous ultra-endurance athlete, John Stamstad, a couple years back. Stamstad had some very good life advice that has stuck with me, which I paraphrase - you can have three out of four things in life as an adult endurance athlete (1) a great married life/great life with a...

June 22, 2022 Could Have Been Etched on My Tombstone

Aug 21, 2022

June 22, 2022 could have been a very fateful date for me and my family. I came very close to having that date on the righthand side of my tombstone. My August Podcast is dedicated to my crash. Visual aids help tremendously when explaining anything moving and on two wheels so I would encourage you to follow the YouTube...

Garrett County Double Diablo Grand Fondo

Jul 25, 2022

The Garrett County Double Diablo Grand Fondo on June 18, 2022 was not my idea. My training partner, Nate, suggested it on a Sunday Ride. He really dared me to say No. He tends to bite off Big Projects like TNGA, Michigan's Coast to Coast Gravel Grinder (which he has also talked me into), Mohican 100 Mountain Bike Race,...