I began racing on the Dartmouth Cycling Team as a graduate student at Dartmouth in 2005. Before then I had been an avid mountain biker, but hadn't been bit by the road biking bug. That year of racing all over the east coast with good friends was a great introduction to the sport and I have continued racing ever since. In 2006, I toured across Europe with college friends. Once I moved to Boston, I joined the Boston Road Club and served on the board of the team as webmaster and secretary before moving to Seattle