Hometown: Albany, NY;  but I now call Lyons, Co home

Education: BS Environmental Science , Associates degree in liberal Arts, Native Plant Master series

Occupation:  Co-Owner of Sustainable Landscape Company

Discipline: Road bike

Strengths: Perseverance and a bit of stubbornness

Former Teams: None

Category: 4

Years Racing: 1^st season

Objectives:  I’d like to grow as a rider – to identify my weaknesses and make them my strengths.  To keep smiling every time I get on my bike….

Favorite Race: So far, I really had fun at the John Stenner Mem'l Time Trial (CO state TT championship)

Admirable Athlete: Lynn Hill – power of mind and body!!

Unique info or story: Bought a road bike after my Ibis mountain bike was stolen in 1999(a few months after I had built it from the frame up) and have been roading it ever since.

Most embarrassing (race) moment: Still to come - it will be good as I've been saving myself.