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Last weekend my brother and I competed as team "GO JAMIE!!" in the new 2 man 8 hour category at Hurkey Creek near Idyllwild, CA.

As a child, I was always praised for finishing my steak. Comments like "we love our little carnivore!" ring clearly in my mind. If I was being fussy I'd often be told "you don't have to eat it all, just finish the meat." Meat was a staple in my diet as a child. It was something to bond over, something to marvel. It was always there. Needless to say, when I became a vegetarian, my family went into shock. There was turmoil and guilt trips, a disconnect created between myself and my loved ones.

It seems like we spend so much of our lives working on something:  Most of us spend a good portion of the day at work.  We come home and work on the house, or work in the yard.  When we have the time, we might work on our bikes, work on our relationships, or find any number of other ways to work.  Even when on the bike, those of us that race, end up working on sprinting, or climbing, or whatever our weakness might be.  I started putting in heavy base mi

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Adrian Stingaciu recently completed the Tour Divide, a self-supported mountain bike race down the length of the contential divide. OrganicAthlete caught up with him after the ride.

OrganicAthlete: What inspired you to do the Tour Divide Race?

Fast, fun mtb race almost like a crit in the infield of PIR and surrounding trees.

Super fun, fast race in the infield of PIR. Several laps through the trees and into the motocross course.