I am a retired Professional cyclist, and now I am a UCI Commissaire.  I had had alot of fun racing, and I have also given back to racing by coaching, managing teams, doing 4 years time in the USAC Board of Directors, and generally helping to improve racing and riding for everyone.

   Prior to cycling, I swam in High School - Co-Captian the year we were State Champions.  And one year at the University of Iowa.  I left the University of Iowa swim team after one year because the team's Captain - Dave Anderson - gave what should have been my varsity letter jacket, to a friend of his who was not on the travel squad.

   The answer to "Why would I switch from swimming to cycling?" is:

• the summer leading into swimming for the University of Iowa, I had a second shift job in Iowa City
• the University of Iowa's pool was out of service most of that summer
• so each morning I would ride my Schwinn LeTour to the Coralville reservoir and swim laps for a few hours

   During breakfast before a stage of SuperWeek 1999, we got onto the topic of needing new videos to watch. One thing lead to another and I decided I could make some new videos for us.

   A month later, in August 1999, I figured out a way to film a race, from on a bike in a race. The equipment I selected was the best, smallest, and lightest available in 1999. The camera, cables, batteries and camcorder weighted about 2 pounds and could probably be crammed into an 8 inch square box.

   Late summer and the fall of 1999, I filmed about 60 workouts, including descending Waimea canyon on the island of Kauai, Hawaii which tested mounting the camera to my helmet ( my helmet shifted during that ride ). Shoulder mounting the camera on the end of a 2 foot pole was the best, but in a crash, that pole potentially could be a spear that could stab a fellow racer. Both the Golden and Bannock criteriums were filmed from a camera mounted on my bicycle's handlebar stem, with a shock absorber inbetween the camera and the stem.

• Racing ended for me in March 2001 when a car failed to stop at a stop sign and ran over me.  Instead of an ambulance, 911 sent a Pumper Fire truck and a Hazmat truck to clean me off the street.
• In 2011, I began to return to officiating and software.
• I recently completed work on software that is "Proof of Concept" for my Published Patent Application.