You need good motivation to survive base training on an indoor trainer! Each year during the Canadian winter my family embarks on a big cycling challenge. To date we have cycled Canada from coast to coast, Cairo to Cape Town, around Australia (including Tasmania), and this year we are cycling South America from top to tip…sort of. As much as we would all love to actually complete these rides in person, we do it virtually. Staying motivated throughout the long Canadian winter

Standing amid a sea of time trial bikes and aero helmets at bike check in, I suddenly felt like a roadie with a pair of running shoes. I felt overwhelmed, unprepared and majorly in over my head. I was the new kid on the block and, as I watched people move about transition with precision in preparation for the race, I felt like it. At least finding my bike during the race would be easy, I figured, since it seemed like the only road bike on the rack. I had arrived in Ottawa for

Never give up? It was the best thing I ever did. Athletes always say “never give up.”  Most of the time, however, it feels like the athletes saying this are the successful ones who have already “made it” while you’re still down fighting in the trenches, grasping at some goal or dream that seems to be completely out of reach. Kind of like your parents saying they understand your problems when you’re a teenager, as if.  Never. Give. Up. I’ve repeated those words to myself count