We as a species are adept at finding what we are looking for. We all know people who look for trouble and they always find it. People who look for something to complain about tend to find it 100% of the time. But what if we were deliberate in what we were looking for? And what if…
2017 Ride The Rockies
Prologue: For me, this story begun on August 24, 2016 – the day I was hit by a pickup truck on a rural Virginia road. I was left with a broken clavicle and thumb and a totalled bike. The recovery took months, as did my comfort of riding on roads with cars again. It was…
What To Pack For A Staged Bike Tour like Ride the Rockies or RAGBRAI
When preparing for your first bike tour, you may wonder what to bring. This blog post should get you pointed in the right direction. After doing Ride the Rockies seven times, I have created a list that I have found especially helpful to ensure I have all the bases covered. Some quick background: Ride the Rockies…
Join Team World Bicycle Relief for the 2017 Ride the Rockies (and bypass the lottery!)
I would like to invite you on a bike ride that you will never forget while helping change the world at the same time. Specifically, I am asking you to join Team World Bicycle Relief for Ride the Rockies this coming June. What is Ride the Rockies? Ride the Rockies (RTR) is one of the premier organized…
New Bike Day
On August 24, I was hit by a pickup truck while riding my bike. After an ambulance ride to the ER, we discovered that I had a broken left clavicle and broken right thumb. It was not a comfortable recovery but due to the love of my family and friends, and some excellent medical care,…
How Not to Accidentally Kill a Cyclist
Two weeks ago, I was riding my bicycle on one of my standard training rides when a pickup truck hit me on a local road. I was about a foot from the white line and the truck’s mirror smacked me in the shoulder blade. I was taken to the ER in an ambulance and now…
How to Build a Good Resume
I am frequently asked by friends to review their resumes and I find that I often give the same advice over and over, so decided to make a blog post to go over the main points. I have been on both sides of the resume game. I once had six resumes in a row lead to…
Ride The Rockies 2016
Prologue: When my brother Pat was a priest in Aurora, Colorado, a parishioner named Steve O’Leary introduced him to bicycling. In November of 1992, Pat came home for Thanksgiving with a VHS tape of a bicycle tour he just did with Steve called Ride the Rockies. It seemed unreal that normal people with day jobs…
My Journey to Productivity – 13 Lessons I Learned Along The Way
I always struggled with productivity in my career. I got things done, rose fairly high to the executive ranks, but task and time management was a constant challenge. When I left the traditional work world to become an independent consultant, these shortcomings were amplified and it became clear that I had reached an inflection point. If I couldn’t…
Ride the Rockies 2015
Prologue: Ride the Rockies is a high endurance bicycle tour that pushes most riders to their limits, exposing them to extremes in distance, temperature, and mountain climbs. In the end, riders are filled with a profound sense of accomplishment and are left with an experience they will never forget, Sponsored by the Denver Post Foundation,…