Would you prefer feast or famine?
Work rarely arrives in an ordered way, in business or in professional cycling. After months of a dribbly pipeline, everything has landed at once. Here’s what a race calendar that makes no sense taught me about choosing your races, and why the moment you’re feasting is when you most need to choose.
Whose race are you riding?
Brandon McNulty spent six years helping Tadej Pogačar win. On Sunday, he became world champion. For a big chunk of my career I was a support rider too, the VP whose job was to make the boss shine. It was a role I was good at, and that was the trap. So whose race are you riding right now?
The Hidden Constraint: Part One
I was heading into a day of client meetings in London, so the Blur T-shirt went under a shacket. Then a Carter USM song at a red light took me back to 1993 and reminded me how much of myself I used to hide to fit the room. Part one of a two-part story about the hidden constraints that shape how we show up.
The Breakaway
A mid-week ride, an unexpected challenge, and a lesson about what happens when you stop choosing the comfortable group. Part of the Lessons from the Peloton series.
What if you measured the team?
If I’d focused on personal bests, I’d have called it a failure. But this 200km group ride wasn’t about speed—it was about getting everyone there, together.
What Do You Leave That Will Help Others?
A weekend bikepacking trip — and an unexpected trail-side bike pump — got me thinking: what do we leave behind that might help the next person along the way?