I'm 63 Years old, have done 24 Hours of Moab twice as member of a multi-person team and once (2004) as member of a duo team.

It's been a long and interesting trip, and this year's ride, God willing, will be the best of all.

My biking journey started eight years ago on my 55th birthday, when I got off the couch and commuter train, bought a mountain bike and cranked away from my old life as a Washington, D.C. speech writer and onto a much better direction -- with plenty of peddlin' mixed in. 

It has proved to be a path, as Carlos Castaneda, would say, "...with Heart." And, as Robert Frost so succinctly put it, "...that has made All the Difference."

It was slow going at first; I could barely make it out to the rural Virginia mail box and back (1.5 miles each way, with a little hill in the middle,) then I'd go back into the house and nap, exhausted.

Next came a move to Colorado, more and more miles with continuing improvements in lung and leg capacities. Longer and longer rides, more and more single track -- higher and higher elevations.

And that's pretty much what I'm still doin', just peddlin' -- just a little bit longer and further.

I love it. The 24 hours of Moab is my favorite, with the Leadville races a close second.      ridetolife.blogspot.com