Yesterday at Renaissance I won my first ever expert mountain
bike race. This is certainly the
proudest athletic accomplishment of my life.
Instead of talking in depth about the race (which I felt awesome
throughout, and everything went as well as one could hope for during a mountain
bike race) I’d like to thank some people that without their help I certainly
wouldn’t have had nearly this success in mountain biking. There have been many people that have helped
me accomplish this and I certainly appreciate all the help you have given me,
but there are a few people that have made a huge difference for me.
-Mike Danenberg and Zac Breedlove of PerformanceTherapy. With their help I’ve been able
to be injury free for well over two years, and it would have been much longer
if it wasn’t for sitting too long cross-legged at my Indian wedding ceremony. To be injury free this long with the amount
and intensity of training that I’m doing is truly remarkable, especially since
in high school and college I was frequently dealing with injuries.
-Chad Andrews of Total Cyclist. I’ve been in good cycling shape for a number of
years now, but doing Chad’s classes has taken my fitness to a whole new
level. This has been particularly true
for my mountain bike fitness (where you have to be able to push hard then
recover) with working on specific intervals has increase the power I can
produce and my ability to recover from those efforts.
-Bob Pugh. He’s the
guy that first got me into off-road riding with cyclocross. We went to tons of races and rode together on
a course he made a ton. Without his
enthusiasm and passion for riding particularly off-road I probably never would
have continued working on off-road riding. It was great to see him yesterday after having not seen him in a while.
-The guys at BikeSource.
I’m terrible about working on my stuff and taking care of it. Thank you so much for all of your help with
that. I know my stuff is always going to
work and work well.
-Sakshi, my wife. Her
love and support has been tremendous. I
know my schedule (both work and training) isn’t ideal, but she’s always
supportive and so proud of my accomplishments, that it makes my accomplishments
so much sweeter for me to be able to share them with her.
Thank you to everyone I mentioned and those that I haven’t
who have helped me become the mountain biker and athlete that I am, I am so grateful
for your help and support.
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