This site began in early 2006, when I was 21, recently unemployed, and blogging to an audience of people I can count on one hand. Things were very different back then; my idea of a good time was a long night out in DC, I was planning to attend law school that fall, and exercise equaled running two 1-mile laps around my neighborhood. By just over a year later, I had taken a leave of absence from law school, made some drastic changes to my life, and fallen in love with cycling.
Now I’m a professional road cyclist, a mediocre mountain biker, the owner and General Manager of the Hagens Berman | Supermint women’s pro cycling team, and a freelance writer/podcaster/opinionated person with a lot of ideas of how to make cycling better. In my free time, I am the mother of a small child who can do the demon voice from The Exorcist, and the wife of a pretty great guy who swears he makes a delicious stir-fry despite never having cooked a single thing for me ever. Like, literally, ever. Unless you count him boiling water for my tea. I love him anyway.