To The Sea
For this column, I’m flashing back to my pre-cycling graduate school days, or Amber’s Life, B.B. (Before Bike). I hope you enjoy the tangent! I had finished preparing the surgery station, so I settled into a seat on the upper deck of our 92-foot fishing vessel and took in the view: a yawning afternoon sky [...]
25 Things
I was recently asked to relate some little-known facts about myself, a question that led me to look up this piece, which I’d done for a blog a while ago. Just to mix things up a bit, I decided to post it here for fun. 1. I believe the universe is a friendly place. I [...]
Finger Lickin’ Good
For the record, I don’t follow a specific diet. I generally believe in eating real, unprocessed foods, as opposed to substituting artificially low-cal, low-fat, low-sugar products for the real thing. I’m not an advocate for Atkins, or Paleo, or the Zone. Normally I don’t categorically eliminate anything (e.g. fat or sugar), but instead strive for [...]
Home
By Amber Pierce It’s the off-season! Since I’m temporarily scaling back my training regime to normal-person hours, I suddenly have a lot of time on my hands. This extra time gets allocated to everything I don’t get to do during full-time racing and training. Some of those things are fun; for example, I get to [...]
All The Way To Reno!
By Amber Pierce In the sport of cycling, there’s a saying: no one else in the picture. It’s the sweetest way to win a bike race—solo, so far off the front that you cross the line with no one else in the picture. The only way it could be sweeter? To do it in your [...]
Pretty In Pink
By Amber Pierce Earlier this month, I raced the Giro Donne, ten days of racing over some of the most beautiful (and cruel) terrain in Italy. Many racers postulated that it was perhaps the hardest Giro to date. I wouldn’t know, because this was the first year I’ve raced it. Upon arrival to our hotel [...]
For The Summer
By Amber Pierce A race block can loosely be defined as whatever races and travel occur between when you pack your bag, and when you get home and either unpack and/or re-pack for the next block. Time between race blocks can vary from a single day to a few weeks, depending on the calendar. This [...]
Dolce Vita
As we roll into Cornaredo on the outskirts of Milan, I wonder What’s with the hairy eyeball? and find myself in a series of staring contests with all the pedestrians we pass. Then I remember: we’re in the team car, and that custom Diadora Pasta Zara paint job in purple and chartreuse is meant to [...]
Kia Ora
By Amber Pierce The journey from Austria to New Zealand would take more than forty hours, flying from Vienna to London to Auckland to Palmerston North. After the tour, I would travel another forty hours from Wellington to Auckland to Hong Kong to London to Vienna to Graz, making a full circle of the globe. [...]
Moment of Clarity
By Amber Pierce Last night, I arrived home in Graz after a week of training in Valencia, Spain. The journey home from Spain went something like this: Wake up. Load enormous bike bag (an old double Bike Pro) and large luggage bag into rented Citrön C3. Drive to airport. Unload Stuff and haul it to [...]
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