You are invited! So many of you have seen me through the adventures showcased in this book. Lets celebrate at my upcoming Book Launch and Signing. Pre-order a signed copy of the book at this link.
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I don’t know of another race on the planet where you can meet the Prime Minister at the start line before riding next to a Royal Prince while he offers you words of encouragement and support as you pedal across his beautiful country. The Tour of the Dragon, a 160 mile, one-day mountain bike race through the mountains of Bhutan and which consistently has a drop out rate of about 50%, is the creation of His Royal Highness Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck. After placing third one year, His Royal Highness now spends his time on race day moving around the course to ride with various participants offering assistance and encouragement. Want to ride bikes with a Prince? Come to Bhutan. […]
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As we picked our way across Bhutan to Bumthang through mud bogs, slick sleet, downed trees and narrow, windy endless climbs with thousand feet drop-offs, I realized that what has been slated as ‘One of the Toughest One Day Mountain Bike Events in the World’, had just gotten a bit tougher. I knew these roads as I have ridden or driven them multiple times. Yet currently they are doing construction on a large majority of the only road that slices through the middle of Bhutan. What was already a rough, mud-slide infused, pot holed road is now predominantly under mud. This is the stage for the 6th annual Tour of the Dragon and what the founder of the event, His […]
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Even though I have been a tireless supporter of His Royal Highness and the Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) I was quite close to not doing Tour of the Dragon this year. In fact I was quite close to protesting the race in the face of my loyalty here. Here’s why. When I first started helping the BOC with their Tour of the Dragon event I immediately noticed that they didn’t have an equal prize purse for men and women. Initially they had a token amount offered to the first place woman that was dramatically less than the first place man, and they called it a “consolation prize.” Ouch. I started having conversations with them about the importance of equality in […]
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[Written while en route to Bhutan] After my brother-in-law, Dan, passed away of brain cancer I shared a eulogy at a party celebrating his life, which stated the following, “Too often it is those that we love so easily who leave us much too soon. Yet in the same moments that we will struggle to make sense of this, the world around us remains a beautiful place.” When someone close to us dies prematurely it is healthy and I think cathartically introspective to then contemplate our own life and mortality. For me this type of contemplation doesn’t tend to zero in on death so much as it is an opportunity to evaluate my life and the choices I wish to […]
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Before I headed out on my recent 4th trip to Bhutan to help put on the Bhutan International Marathon, I noticed I was a tad irritated and reticent. I was spending yet another big chunk of money and time going back to the same place in which I had already spent 6 months volunteering and roaming about. I’d see the same people and work with the same organization for an event that I believed had taken us much too long to bring to fruition. The sameness of it all just wasn’t my MO. And for that, I was feeling a bit, well, pissed off. A few months later, another soul-opening trip behind me and the silly pissed-off feeling in the […]
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