It’s with a heavy heart that I’m announcing that I am leaving my current coach. After the fiasco that was my day at Battenkill this year, I cannot imagine myself continuing under the tutelage of someone who allowed me to not only get an inaccurate electronic atmospheric pressure reading via iPhone but to also stand idly by while I used that reading, creating the tire pressure fiasco that cost me the win in the category four race at Battenkill—a mistake that cost me 12 months worth of preparation. This sort of incompetence cannot be tolerated, so I have moved on, and I have, to paraphrase LeBron, taken my talents elsewhere.

The exciting news is that after trying no fewer than 12 different coaches and finding them all lacking, I have decide to take advantage of a weakness in the coaching marketplace and I’ve started my own coaching business. Currently, I have only one client— you may know him ; ). He’s demanding but fair and he really knows his stuff. My trial and error process with a multitude of coaches has made me realize that I know just as much—if not more—than they do about every aspect of bicycle racing. I have developed extensive knowledge of equipment choices, training methods, nutrition and proper sensory deprivation visualization techniques—if it’s not dark, you won’t win in the park.

It’s through all this knowledge and experience that I have developed the ABR methodology. Always. Be. Racing. It may sound like a tribute to Alec Baldwin’s character in Glengarry Glen Ross (and Baldwin is totally the Jan Ullrich of acting, right?), but it’s a simple technique that will guarantee future success in cycling and beyond. The ABR mindset means that you are racing all the time. Merging into traffic on the turnpike? Draft that semi and fall into the pack to conserve energy. Walking to the office? Wait for an opening in the crowd and sprint around. Sitting in a meeting? Time to do some Kegels to strengthen the core from the “ground up” so to speak.

But I don’t want to turn this email into a sales pitch, if you want to contact me, you know where to find me. I’m currently working up a web site and I’m also coding up a coaching app that will be a totally disruptive game changer. I can’t say much, but through a simple 10 minute full body morning audit, a racer can ascertain their fitness level, scored on a color scale that goes from scarlet to vermillion to amber, and if they hit scarlet, it’s go time, if they see amber, they get an alert, that instructs them to take it easy. It’s like a traffic light that leads you to the promised land. See? I told you it was a game changer, but I would ask you to please not share the app’s functionality with anyone until it gets launched. There are spies everywhere.