I ♥ @StevePeat

This morning I checked the email I reserve for "junk" like pharmaceutical marvels, mail-order university degrees and social media updates to find something I considered definitely NOT junk.

My heart raced as I scanned the subject line: StevePeat is now following you on Twitter.

Holy. Shit.

Steve Peat. "Peaty". World Champion. People's Champion. And consistently my favourite part in mountain bike videos that get me through every winter on the lonely trainer. (I can't tell you how it warms my heart to spin along with him at the start of his part in "Seasons".)

I immediately rushed to my twitter profile to see for myself as I began mentally composing what I might tweet to @StevePeat!

That's when the truth of the notification landed with a thud.

Turns out, it wasn't @StevePeat following me. It was @StevePeatDH and I was so excited, I saw what I wanted to see, skipping over those last two crucial letters. I stared at my screen as the realization sunk in. (philosophical sidebar: does someone who has a fastest-man-in-the-world jersey hanging in his closet really follow anyone?)

The silver lining is, although I'm still a total stranger to the greatest downhiller in the world (and I'm not sure him following me on twitter would change that fact all that much ...), he DID put out an app for iphone/ipad/ipod touch. Rad. It's always good news when the sport gets more positive exposure because that means maybe more people will get out there and try it (and then become addicts like the rest of us).

To close, may I suggest that if you're on twitter on this lovely Friday, you #ff @StevePeatDH and of course the man himself, @StevePeat.

Winter Training with World Cup DH-ers

Trek tweeted this little video about their DH-er Tracy Moseley ... interesting. Cross training on a dirt bike?! I'm in the wrong discipline. ;) PS - the soundtrack is an awesome song on high rotation on my ipod. So I'm also tagging this post a RACE TRACK. ("Home is where the heart is" by The Sounds)

And ... for a lighter look at the off-season, check out a day-in-the-life with World Champion, Steve Peat.

Race Tracks

The robins hopping around on my front yard tell me Spring is here and that means that the time to pack up the trainer is just around the corner. Oh, how that makes me happy!


During the trainer season, I owe a lot of mornings to "The Collective" and Seasons. That movie makes it worth getting out of bed. Perfect length for a spin before work and somehow I never get sick of it. I especially love the part with Peaty racing MSA to "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine. Perfect pick, and definitely a Race Track.



And for fun, here's the Seasons trailer. Pick it up at your LBS.

Race Tracks

First Race Track -- and my personal fav -- Galvanize, by the Chemical Brothers. Second verse is clearly about mountain biking.

Dont hold back...
If you think about it too much, you may stumble, trip up, fall on your face...
Dont hold back...
You think it's time you get up, crunch time, like a sit up, come on keep pace...
Dont hold back...
Put apprehension on the back burner, let it sit, dont even get it lit...

Galvanize is also featured in this sick vid showing time lapse of a dude "painting" on his computer. Read the article.


Get stoked!