by Michael Leach | Jan 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Despite the smile, I was hurting when this picture was taken after a crash in Stage 2 of the Breck Epic. I didn’t know if I’d be able to race Stage 3 (the Queen’s Stage) and remained unsure until I pedaled to the start and made it through the first...
by Michael Leach | Dec 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m really excited to share that I’m teaming up with the fine folks at Unwaffle as a brand ambassador. I first connected with Erik—the master chef and Co-founder (his wife is the other half) at a farmers market in Big Sky and immediately loved his ethos and product....
by Michael Leach | Dec 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s hard to believe it’s been three weeks since our big trip to the Flathead to play Glacier-Kalispell. Like many of our coaches, I’ve been laid up the last two weeks with a wicked illness that TKO’d me for Thanksgiving break. Tonight’s, our midnight madness practice...
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...
