Au Revoir Professeur Fignon

Today is a very sad day for cycling as Laurent Fignon lost his long battle with cancer.

The Professor as he was known, due to both his spectacles and his bookish demeanor. Laurent was a tough tough guy. At the same time, he really enjoyed the finer things in life and had his own sense of style and grace that is uncommon in superstar athletes around the world.

Life Is Like A Bicycle

Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving – Albert Einstein Motivation to act and keep the arms and legs moving comes from a wide variety of sources.  I am truly blessed with great friends who constantly challenge me with their heroic, yet somehow, ordinary efforts. My very good friend [...]

48 Hours In Paris – Part II

Everyone knew that 2005 would be Lance’s last tour. (ok, we were proven wrong this year) The buzz was tremendous. We all got up extra early to get a great spot along the fence on the Champs Elysées.

48 Hours In Paris – Part I

On July 23, 2005 my good friends Mike Cybrynski, Dave Ferriera, my S.O. Angela, and I took off from Amsterdam on the E19 toward Paris to watch the final stage of the Tour de France. I had actually done this drive several times, but Dave insisted on google maps and sitting shotgun as the navigator, while I drove.

We were whizzing by Ghent Belgium when we saw a sign advertising the 162nd annual Gentse-feesten. Of course we had to go. Ghent has the largest open air plaza in Europe and incredible history. We saw three country and western bands performing on three different stages. Yeah, this brought us a bit of cognitive dissonance. This festival is seriously good fun and worth attending if you ever have the chance. I will write more about this later.

To understand and pursue my life, in all facets, consistent with my personal values

Peace, Love and Happiness!

Still thinking about my personal mission…. Nothing comes closer to describing what this means to me than this photo. I wish to you, me and the world that we all have “peace, love and happiness.”

My Annual Personal Plan

Each year I go through a sort of formal process of evaluating my personal mission, vision, strategy and plan.  The idea is to make sure I understand the big picture of what I want and how I line up my goals and execute against that vision. This process usually takes about two months and I [...]

Translating Air Travel To Triathlon

The concept about my blog is to find creative ways to translate life to triathlon and vice versa. Some of the articles are conceptual and subtle and others are very direct. I will readily admit that today is a bit of a stretch, so bear with me.

Octoginta 1980: Peer Pressure And Progress

In the spring of 1980, a bunch of my buddies were making plans to do a bicycle tour from my home town of Manhattan, Kansas to Bay Lake Minnesota. The whole exercise of planning and preparation was quite intriguing. Not a cyclist, and only 19, I was feeling left out.

That summer I started making some real cash and invested in a Raleigh Super Grand Prix, with panniers, fenders and such. Owning the cool stuff was way more fun than trying to get in shape. However, over a few months I was beginning to venture a little further from home and the rides got longer.

Falling Off The Wagon: Staying Upright While Traveling

Travel is not conducive to training. I am not great at figuring out ways to train while I am traveling. For some bizarre reason I feel guilty about not working every single minute. No, it’s not rational.

Seriously though, the worst part is the consumption of mass quantities of food and alcoh0l.

What You Want: What You Need

I am writing this from a cramped American Airlines seat on my way to Dallas.  This flight is scheduled for just under 3 hours.  Ergo, allowing for some time to people watch and reflect.  My favorite hobby.  (See About Todd) My bag was checked in about 50 minutes before flight.  The new millimeter wavelength body [...]