Telluride 100, 28 July 2018.
Welcome to André Breton Racing Dot Com, a website I developed to share my training, racing, and touring experiences on / off a bicycle and tell the story of how the sport of cycling, in particular, transformed my life. The opening scene takes place in March 2013, a critical moment when I decided to attempt to qualify for the Leadville 100. That decision led me to redefine, in my life, what was possible, and more importantly in hindsight, what was valuable. The decision also transformed my understanding of physical health and mental clarity. I've tried to capture my journey since Leadville in my blog and images; the opening chapter is recalled here in My Road To Leadville.
My hope is that my journey will inspire others to reconsider their own 'possible' and set their own goals. For those that accept the challenge, I predict that they will collide with, and annihilate, the borders of their comfort zone and along the way achieve real, lasting, health benefits. If one person discovers my story and starts their own journey then perhaps this one person leads to one more, and one more, and so on and the realization of Jane Jacobs prediction, "everything good starts small", comes true. That is my wish and everything that comes with it for the well being of humanity and biodiversity on Planet Earth.
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 pursue my primary ambitions as a competitive, amateur, racer.
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 the gym at Integrative Physiotherapy, attending a yoga class at Yoga Pod, or playing competitive soccer at Arena Sports in nearby Windsor, Colorado.
From my website, you can review my race results and schedule 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, racing, and touring experiences, short reviews and lists of my bikes, gear, nutrition and other products that I've come to trust after many hours and miles of testing.
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.
My hope is that my journey will inspire others to reconsider their own 'possible' and set their own goals. For those that accept the challenge, I predict that they will collide with, and annihilate, the borders of their comfort zone and along the way achieve real, lasting, health benefits. If one person discovers my story and starts their own journey then perhaps this one person leads to one more, and one more, and so on and the realization of Jane Jacobs prediction, "everything good starts small", comes true. That is my wish and everything that comes with it for the well being of humanity and biodiversity on Planet Earth.
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 pursue my primary ambitions as a competitive, amateur, racer.
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 the gym at Integrative Physiotherapy, attending a yoga class at Yoga Pod, or playing competitive soccer at Arena Sports in nearby Windsor, Colorado.
From my website, you can review my race results and schedule 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, racing, and touring experiences, short reviews and lists of my bikes, gear, nutrition and other products that I've come to trust after many hours and miles of testing.
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