And just like that… I’m finally fucking done. 18 bottles of Flow Formulas. 453:30:40 hours of training. 1,339 Training Stress Score. 14,531 calories burned. 18 Flow Formulas gels. 18 home cooked meals. 35,734 feet of climbing. 6 Jackky massages. 6 epsom salt baths. 5 stage podiums. 1 bent handlebar. 1…

I’m at a loss for words because I’m so angry with myself. Today fucking sucked on all levels. The altitude got to me. I’m incredibly tired. I tried pushing as much as I could, which resulted in eating shit again. I took a chunk out of my elbow and the…

Today I had to channel my inner Tom Wambsgans (from Succession) and tell myself: “You will be okay, because you are a tough fucking bitch who will always survive because you do what you need. You will do whatever you need.” I slept like shit the night before because of…

Mama always said, “karma’s a bitch.” I joked about first place getting a mechanical so I could catch up. Lo and behold, this bitch can’t get a break. I got nailed — and not the fun kind. I was setting a pretty good pace at the start, making sure I…

Oh. My. Fucking. God. I’m as equally disappointed as I am proud of myself. Hold on a second — gotta hoist myself out of the bathtub because my quads and/or hamstrings will seize up at any moment. So, I was down from first by five minutes. I was hoping to…

Day one was a little soul-crushing. All my fears came true…and I guess it wasn’t that bad. I worried about how gnarly the start would be and yeah, it heated up real quick. Couple of dudes cut me off because of course, they would. And then others did later, hitting…

resting my back against your chest when we’re lying in bed together as if we’re one body; the way you rub my neck & find all the knots in my shoulders as if you were rolling me like cookie dough; how you wrap your legs around me while you’re doing…

A.) Cut off your finger, wrap it tightly with gauze, tuck it into one of those light brown gummed, Kraft clasp, envelopes you find at Office Depot, write his name and address in the center, stick an American flag stamp in the right corner, and shove it in the mailbox…

i can’t help