Words by Taylor Thomas at Thomas Endurance Coaching It will come as no surprise that riding in a Grand Tour is a tremendous undertaking. The physiological and psychological stress that it places on an athlete’s body is hard to imagine for most people. Anyone of the stages in isolation would qualify as a bucket list day for the majority of …

Words by Julia Favero, Images by Julia and Justin Weeks Work, kid, cat and side projects make my life and Justin’s very happy but also very busy, so every minute we have left, we devote it to ride bikes. As there’s not much time left, every ride needs to be perfect: long, hilly and stunning; which involves a lot of …

Twelve months ago I was at my European base in Nice, France packing my bags for a dream come true: my first Tour de France. All of my adult life had prepared me for this moment and this childhood dream of mine was actually about to be fulfilled. I was more fit, lean and mentally prepared than I had ever …

So where do you go as a cyclist living in NYC go to escape when life in the city just gets to be a little too much? When you need a break from the foot and car traffic. Where else is there outside of the hamster wheel laps of Prospect and Central Parks? When Donalrey Nieva got sick of the …