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The Last Best Ride
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...
The Long Bridge Swim
We call it our annual August pilgrimage back to the North Idaho waters of my youth. The Long Bridge Swim has really captured us over the years and it’s always a highlight of our summer calendar. Born in Kootenai County, Idaho, sharing these open water adventures with...
Mental Health and Big Training Blocks
Friends have often called me ‘The King of Wing’ for my extemporaneous propensity to ‘wing’ it during a motivational presentation—speaking to a group of students or addressing a locker-room full of athletes. As a Level 2 USA Cycling Coach who has spent countless hours...
Hapuna Rough Water
As we roll into the 4th of July, having recently celebrated summer solstice, we’re still riding our KOA wave. It’s hard to put these trips into words, but you know I’ll try. Kamiah and I left Kauai in 2013, where she was a student at Koloa Early Learning. It was a...
The Dead Swede 2023
What a wild ride. With deep Wyoming Roots, The Dead Swede is a race that has been on my radar since its inception and on my race calendar (literally), for the last six years. It’s never a good feeling when you’re unable to participate in a race that gets your juices...
The Gold(en) Connor Fields, A BMX Legend
I couldn't be more excited about this one. I had the opportunity to hear Connor Fields speak down at the USA Cycling Coaching Summit in Colorado Springs and I immediately knew I was going to reach out to him about being on the show. Everything about teaming up with...
USA Cycling Level 2 Coach
It’s been a wild ride these last couple months. I’ve been in swim dad mode FT, put in a big training block, banged out a new Be Audacious website & blog and launched 🚀 the podcast. And this test has been hanging over my head. I’m so stoked to share that it’s...
Gwendalyn Gibson Rising
Call it what you will—fate, meant to be, or the workings of the universe—but there’s no doubt in my mind that all of this was at play when I connected with Gwendalyn Gibson at the Denver International Airport in early November. I was on a layover from Bozeman,...
Base Training Approach
Training is an art and a science. Data and “feel” matter, especially when you’re coaching yourself. For self-coached athletes, there’s many variables that complicate the coach/athlete (these truly are two different parts) relationship, and while I’ve found over the...
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