Welcome to my home page. I'm a 50 year-old ultra cyclist originally from England, now residing near Chicago, Illinois. I work at Northern Illinois University where I am the Department Chair for Kinesiology and Physical Education. I like to believe that through my cycling I practice what I preach: the value of being physically active.

Cycling has been my primary form of transportation since the late 1980s when as an impoverished graduate student, I could not afford to repair my motorcycle and had to use my bike to get to school. This was enjoyable largely because I was living in southern California.

Over the years my riding has progressed from commuting to work to competing in ultra events, starting with the Death Valley Double as a way of proving that at 40 I wasn't really getting any older! On moving to the mid-west in the summer of 2002, I discovered the wider world of ultra cycling and started riding in more double centuries, 12-hour and 24-hour races.

Last summer I competed in the innagural Race Across the West. I hoped that the race would be a stepping stone to competing in the Race Across America in the summer of 2009. My race report can be found on my web site. For a number of reasons, I am delaying racing in RAAM until 2010.