Day one of the Memorial to Memorial ride started bright and early with a 0700 form-up at the Wright Brothers National Memorial. There were nearly 350 cyclists gathered at the place where humans first took flight, all preparing to begin a four-day journey to the Air Force Memorial in Washington, D.C. We rolled out together […]
The Memorial to Memorial ride, better known as M2M, is a four-day cycling journey covering approximately 350 miles. It begins at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and ends at the Air Force Memorial in Washington, D.C. But M2M is not simply about riding from one monument to another. The ride
I’ve been thinking a lot about optimism lately. I am an optimist. Like… probably annoyingly optimistic. I tend to believe things are going to work out. I believe there is a solution. I believe I can figure it out. And I believe people can do WAY more than they think they can do. Give me
This weekend, I’m back to racing. I’ll be at the Boston Triathlon, but I’m making a change from the original plan. Instead of racing the Olympic distance, I’m dropping down to the sprint. And I’m actually feeling pretty good about that decision. The last couple of weeks haven’t exactly been a model training block. I
After what happened in Atlantic City last weekend, I knew I needed to get back into open water before my next race. Not eventually. Not when I felt ready. I needed to actually get back in the water. So this weekend I joined CIBBOWS for their Intro to Open Water Swimming class at Brighton Beach.
If you only know me from what I post about running, cycling, and triathlon, it would probably be pretty easy to assume that I spend all of my time training. Some days it feels like I do. There is always another run to get in, another bike ride, another swim, another class to teach, or
Open-water swimming has become one of the hardest parts of triathlon training for me. Not because I can’t swim. I can swim. I’ve spent plenty of time in pools and I’m comfortable there. The problem is what happens in my head when I get into open water. There is something about not being able to
On November 1, 2026, I’m going to run the New York City Marathon. Writing that still sounds a little crazy. 26.2 miles through all five boroughs of New York City is a pretty big thing to sign up for, especially when you know exactly how much training goes into it. But this year I wanted
My job has been a lot lately. From the outside, recruiting probably seems pretty simple. We have people to recruit, we have goals to hit, and we need to get people through the door and into the Air Force. But there is a whole lot that happens between those things, and most of it isn’t
