Salida 720 (12 hrs of Salida), 5 May 2018.
Welcome to André Breton Racing Dot Com, a website that I developed to share my training and racing experiences on a mountain bike and tell the story of how I came to be an endurance mountain bike athlete. You can read the whole story here, in My Road To Leadville. My hope is that events leading to 8 August 2013, when I crossed the finish line at the Leadville Trail 100, will inspire others to go after their own dreams, to set goals and believe that they too can do more than they think they can. If I can inspire even one person, then I'll be paying forward some of the kindness and advice that I received from friends and strangers along the way. Their gifts and my determination allowed me to achieve an epic goal that eventually developed into a long-term passion for cycling and racing.
For the last four years I've lived about 6-8 months of the year in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the base of the Rocky Mountains (5000 ft), an ideal location for an endurance athlete and mountain biker. And the remainder with my former girlfriend in Hamburg, Germany. As of March 2018, the "German experiment", as I often called it, has sadly come to a conclusion. I'm currently back in Colorado and thinking about the next chapter of my life as I continue to train and, recently, returned to the racing circuit (see results) .
Since December 2014, I've been a member of Northern Colorado Grassroots Riders, a grassroots recreational and racing mountain bike team based-out-of Fort Collins that was founded in 1992 by Ralph Eberspacher. The team typically gathers the second Monday of every month at either Social, in Old Town Fort Collins, or Nick's Italian, on College Avenue. If you're interested in bikes and bike racing then consider joining NCGR for a pint some Monday night at either venue, we usually arrive after 6:30 PM. When I'm not training in the foothills west of Fort Collins or out on the plains, you might find me cross-training in town at Integrative Physiotherapy, attending some form of a heated yoga class at Midline Yoga, or playing competitive soccer at Arena Sports in nearby Windsor, Colorado.
From my website, you can review my race results and many more details including a list of friends that provide financial support, through generous discounts, for my amateur racing endeavors, a gallery of images from my training and racing experiences, and short reviews and lists of my bikes, gear, nutrition and other products that I've come to trust after many hours on a WTB Volt saddle.
The latest news from André Breton Racing is available on my blog, please consider dropping-in from time-to-time for updates. Thanks for visiting André Breton Racing Dot Com. If you have any comments or questions just holla. Here's my contact info.
For the last four years I've lived about 6-8 months of the year in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the base of the Rocky Mountains (5000 ft), an ideal location for an endurance athlete and mountain biker. And the remainder with my former girlfriend in Hamburg, Germany. As of March 2018, the "German experiment", as I often called it, has sadly come to a conclusion. I'm currently back in Colorado and thinking about the next chapter of my life as I continue to train and, recently, returned to the racing circuit (see results) .
Since December 2014, I've been a member of Northern Colorado Grassroots Riders, a grassroots recreational and racing mountain bike team based-out-of Fort Collins that was founded in 1992 by Ralph Eberspacher. The team typically gathers the second Monday of every month at either Social, in Old Town Fort Collins, or Nick's Italian, on College Avenue. If you're interested in bikes and bike racing then consider joining NCGR for a pint some Monday night at either venue, we usually arrive after 6:30 PM. When I'm not training in the foothills west of Fort Collins or out on the plains, you might find me cross-training in town at Integrative Physiotherapy, attending some form of a heated yoga class at Midline Yoga, or playing competitive soccer at Arena Sports in nearby Windsor, Colorado.
From my website, you can review my race results and many more details including a list of friends that provide financial support, through generous discounts, for my amateur racing endeavors, a gallery of images from my training and racing experiences, and short reviews and lists of my bikes, gear, nutrition and other products that I've come to trust after many hours on a WTB Volt saddle.
The latest news from André Breton Racing is available on my blog, please consider dropping-in from time-to-time for updates. Thanks for visiting André Breton Racing Dot Com. If you have any comments or questions just holla. Here's my contact info.
" ... if one advances confidently in the direction of his [or her] dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau
"If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do." Mahatma Gandhi