how being an athlete makes the holidays different! Most winters, I head south before the holidays to begin off-season training. Florida, California and even Colorado have been my destinations in the past. This year I'm in Tucson, Arizona right ...

Cross des Couleurs. It's a sandy 5.5km course that weaves through a forest of colourful foilage, with a few steep pitches and a welcome straightaway seciton that we tackle twice in the 11km event. I was out of my element and didn't know what to ...

Mid Season Moto Adventure - exploring Québec on two wheels   After a winter of training and a spring block heavy with travel and Women's World Tour Races, I set the bike aside for a few days - it was time to give the body a break. ...

It's Bell Let's Talk day, when across the nation Canadians text, tweet, post, talk about and reflect on mental health.   Bell Canada has supported me and many other Canadian athletes over the years through Athletes Connect program - by ...

November gets the short end of the stick in terms of recognition. Perhaps because there are no holidays, or due to the ambiguity of the seasons. But I love November. R acing is finished, training becomes more flexible, and my travel ...

TrueBlueᵀᴹ glasses. They’re made specifically to wear when working with devices that emit Blue Light, and don’t even have a prescription.     I chose a blue-brown tortoise frame, they look sharp. I wear them all of the time now: ...

Tibco-SVB began working with SWAY (www.swaymedical.com), a Smartphone application designed to assist in identifying concussions. In the early spring, my teammates and I had each downloaded the application.   SWAY lead us through a ...

  The National Road Cycling Championships comes once a year. It's a special race because the winner of this one single event becomes the champion of the country. ​With that comes the privilege of wearing the most coveted jersey of the ...

Today I'm a professional cyclist, but when I started riding bikes, I was so far from my current profession (on so many levels) that I never imagined I'd make my living racing bikes. When I started road cycling, I'd fallen in love riding bikes simply ...

Being in the wind tunnel feelsmore like being in a room than a tube.That was a surprise to me. I felt likeI was showcased on my Fuji TT bike, up on a platform that positioned me precisely into the airstream. Everyone else was hidden behind a glass ...