by Michael Leach | Oct 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
I wrote this yesterday but didn’t feel ready to post it until today. “Get the damn bike.” Those are the words my mom spoke to me on a 90-minute call on my drive home from a Jackson Hole wedding gig last month. She spent 90 minutes talking to me about a new bike—she...
by Michael Leach | Sep 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Happy autumn solstice (I unplugged for five days so I’m a little late to the fall party). I tipped off a big (for me) 5-day, fourteen-hour bike block on Saturday, in celebration of autumn solstice. Even though I call it the autumn funk—as I love riding that summer...
by Michael Leach | Sep 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here’s some words of wisdom and food for thought from a mental performance coach regarding race distances. In the endurance biking realm, whether it’s marathon distance mountain biking or gravel races, a premium is often placed on the distance of the race, the...
by Michael Leach | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
On this 8/24, in honor of the late and great Kobe Bryant, I’m sharing one of the most BA and Mamba two-wheeled endeavors I’ve embarked upon. I’ve been looking forward to sitting down and writing this recap—any opportunity to relive what was a once in a...
by Michael Leach | Aug 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
This event was fire, literally and figuratively. I didn’t know how I’d respond on the bike the morning after going so deep at The Long Bridge Swim, but I was hyped to race this event—the biggest two wheeled showcase in Big Sky Country. Kamiah and I were riding the...
