From Heart Surgery to Gravel Racing: My Comeback at the Dirty South Roubaix

Two years ago, I wondered if I’d ever race a bike again.  This weekend, I’m back at the starting line for the Dirty South Roubaix in southern Illinois, my first gravel race since heart surgery-and the first of the Heart and Gravel Comeback Tour. I’ll do the 100k race, which I did three years ago […]

From Heart Scare to Comeback: The Journey Behind the Heart and Gravel Tour

The summer of 2023 started off well for training and racing my bike  I was holding my own in the challenging group rides with guys half my age on Saturday mornings.  When I started to have some irregular heartbeats, sometimes on rides, I thought they were just spasms and ignored them.  Even when I was […]

The Heart and Gravel Comeback Tour: Racing, Recovery, and Raising Hope