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08 October 2024
PhotographyGeorge Marshall
How did you get into cycling?
Cycling wasn’t a fixture of my early life at all, I grew up playing soccer and swimming. My dad was a road rider but I didn’t have any interest in it at all. I played soccer and ran track in high school, going on to play soccer in college. Once there, I realised soccer wasn’t for me. That’s when I joined the triathlon club, and since I didn’t like the running and the swimming, I tried cycling. I was super lucky because it just happened to be the best collegiate cycling program in the country.
You started in road racing. What prompted the move off-road?
Road cycling was just what I was naturally the best at. I’d go to these big road races around the country but never felt like I fitted in. I wasn’t that ‘Type A’ personality that I felt was everywhere at the time, so I decided to go in another direction. With mountain biking and cyclocross, there’s this unexpected component that you just have to embrace which isn’t necessarily there with the road. The dirt component. I get along better with the mountain biking and cyclocross community.
How did you get into cycling?
Cycling wasn’t a fixture of my early life at all, I grew up playing soccer and swimming. My dad was a road rider but I didn’t have any interest in it at all. I played soccer and ran track in high school, going on to play soccer in college. Once there, I realised soccer wasn’t for me. That’s when I joined the triathlon club, and since I didn’t like the running and the swimming, I tried cycling. I was super lucky because it just happened to be the best collegiate cycling program in the country.
You started in road racing. What prompted the move off-road?
Road cycling was just what I was naturally the best at. I’d go to these big road races around the country but never felt like I fitted in. I wasn’t that ‘Type A’ personality that I felt was everywhere at the time, so I decided to go in another direction. With mountain biking and cyclocross, there’s this unexpected component that you just have to embrace which isn’t necessarily there with the road. The dirt component. I get along better with the mountain biking and cyclocross community.
How did you get into cycling?
Cycling wasn’t a fixture of my early life at all, I grew up playing soccer and swimming. My dad was a road rider but I didn’t have any interest in it at all. I played soccer and ran track in high school, going on to play soccer in college. Once there, I realised soccer wasn’t for me. That’s when I joined the triathlon club, and since I didn’t like the running and the swimming, I tried cycling. I was super lucky because it just happened to be the best collegiate cycling program in the country.
You started in road racing. What prompted the move off-road?
Road cycling was just what I was naturally the best at. I’d go to these big road races around the country but never felt like I fitted in. I wasn’t that ‘Type A’ personality that I felt was everywhere at the time, so I decided to go in another direction. With mountain biking and cyclocross, there’s this unexpected component that you just have to embrace which isn’t necessarily there with the road. The dirt component. I get along better with the mountain biking and cyclocross community.