I started riding a bike when I was about five years old but never thought of competing. Football, baseball, basketball, rugby, tennis or racquetball were my favorite sports until my first knee surgery which happened on the football field. My good friend Elliott Varon gave me a bicycle to rehab my knee which lead to riding on the bike path in Southern California. I did my first team triathlon in Mexico with my girl friend Toni Matz swimming and my friend Wolf Larsen running. That was it. I was bit. I've been racing for about twenty years. I've raced three summers in Italy which was a blast and rode one of the stages of the Tour de France. No, I wasn't in the race I just rode the 112 miles and 12,000 ft of climbing! I’ve also done the Maratona de los Dolomites which is a Gran Fondo in Italy as well. Once, my brother Eric and I rode with Lance Armstrong and the entire Discovery Team after their winter training camp! WOW. It was like shooting hoops with Michael Jordan or playing a round with Tiger Woods.

Racing is not easy for me, because of my work schedule and the music schedule. I still love it though. In 2008 I dropped a lot of weight, trained hard and won 4 Gold medals at the Huntsman Senior World Games and was the overall winner in my category for road racing. I won 1 silver and two bronze medals in the mountain biking as well. Not bad for my first showing at the World Games.

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