Tommy

Hey everyone, I live in what I consider to be a cycling paradise with my wife Beth and our 1 yr old daughter Gracie. I’ve been lurking around here for a while waiting till I had my Discipline built up to post. I really enjoy reading everyone’s blogs and checking out your rides, you guys are awesome.

I changed careers 4 years ago leaving the corporate world to become a teacher. My wallet is a little thinner these days but I now have a job I love teaching my other passion; computer technology. The best part is in the summer I have almost three solid months to travel and RIDE!

My Irrational Devotion started 31 years ago when a neighbor girl taught me how to ride a two wheeler in the neighborhood culdesac. That first taste of true freedom led to my passion and addiction to cycling. My dedication has waxed and waned over the years from BMXing and freestyling in the 80’s (You Chicago boys may know Itasca BMX Track and Sundance Cycle in Bloomingdale) to my Mt. Biking and bike messenging days in Philadelphia in the 90’s (Jim Thorpe and Fairmount park were my regular haunts). Around 96’ a broken collar bone and then being hit by a car on my bike kept me from cycling for few years. Today my time on the bike is spent extreme trail and road riding in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. This season I’ve been riding 20 to 50 miles almost everyday after school, weekends are spent in the mountains ripping it up locally or over in Slatyfork or Snowshoe WV.

You can check out the cycling scene around here on my club’s website: www.winchesterwheelmen.org