Now that we’ve made it into 2014 – thank goodness! – the countdown of the Top 14 moments in my sport career continues with two adventures in Colorado that feature my coach, Saint Jim Lehman. Seriously, I’ve glossed over the hell I put him through, and he deserves recognition. Isn’t
And so the 2014 countdown continues………. #10 Setting two world records in swimming I very briefly held world records in the 200 Free and the 400IM. Those two events are (and were even before I set those records) my favorite events. The 200 Free I love because it is a
Mercifully, 2013, the “year-after-the-Paralympics” is almost over. Having done this once before, I knew to expect some chaos and some bumps. And like anything Olympic, the chaos was overwhelmingly grand in scale. So, to mark the of the end of this year and the start of a brand new trip
It’s been a source of bike rider shame: my lack of roller-riding skills. Down in the velodrome infield at Elite Track Nationals (mere weeks after winning two medals at the Paralympic Games), waves of moderate embarrassment washed over me. I was one of the only riders with her bike solidly
All season long there was exactly one race that I was completely fixated on doing. Part of the attraction of this particular race, was that I knew (everyone kept telling me) it involved a lot of riding uphill. But I also had another, more secret reason for wanting to race