From Bikepacking to Time Trialling

How Bikepacking Helped Me Win the World 24 Hour Time Trial Championships (Twice) November 5, 2022: After twelve hours of tunnelling through darkness, dawn’s first pale hues buoyed my spirits. Since the 5:00 pm start whistle, I’d been sucked into a void: just me and my time trial bike on an 18-mile loop in the […]

The Lost Elephant Q&A

On July 22-23, 2023, I had the opportunity to travel to Cranbrook to compete in the Lost Elephant, a gritty ultra-distance race that explores the bikepacking paradise of the East Kootenay region, with two different route lengths to choose from. I opted for the 500+ km Jumbo (in contrast to the shorter-but-still-challenging Dumbo), which traversed […]

Big Rides of 2022: A Roundup

Inspired by 2021’s Big Rides in the Okanagan, this year I’ve broadened my reach. Unlike 2021 where I explored terrain close to home and in neighbouring US states, this year I racked up 24,000 km in twenty-one countries on two continents (plus many more hours on my indoor trainer). Transitioning to remote, part-time work enabled […]

Mallorca 312

The Jersey In 2019, Stacey Welsh loaned me her old Mallorca 312 jersey for the NorthCape4000, a self-supported 4,000-plus kilometre bikepacking race from Turin to North Cape, Norway. I wore Stacey’s jersey to shreds that summer: through Italy, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and then some. I wore it for […]

Big rides in the okanagan: 2021 Roundup

2021 didn’t shake out as planned. Yet, for all that went wrong—ask me about the joys of a cross-border romance in an era of travel restrictions—I discovered the thrill of off-road cycling, and for that I am extremely grateful. Below, I’ve compiled eleven awesome local rides from the summer of 2021, including bikepacking overnighters, epic […]