I was a rower in high school and got my start racing bikes in 2009 at the Little 500 at Indiana University (made famous by the 1979 film ‘Breaking Away’). I got hooked and began racing on the road thereafter. However, as a dad of two boys with a corporate career in digital health, the energy and time required to compete at the elite level of road cycling was no longer compatible with my lifestyle. I was ready to hang up my wheels for good in 2020 when I stumbled into Zwift at the start of the covid-19 pandemic – initially as a way to simply stay fit, but it’s become so much more than I ever imagined. I’ve made great friends and teammates across the world whom I never would have had the chance to race and train with otherwise. I also grew up on a steady diet of video games – so the combination of cycling + gaming is very enjoyable..