Don’t Think Lifestyle Matters?
We often talk about a healthy lifestyle as if it’s a mystery, a matter of luck, genetics, or timing.
But the truth is far simpler and far harder to accept: your lifestyle is either your medicine or your poison.
If you’re out of shape, overweight, or sedentary, it’s not bad luck; it’s the predictable outcome of how you live.
Simply stated, you can’t get healthy by living the same way that made you unhealthy.
You can’t expect new results from old routines.
Health isn’t something that happens to you; it’s something you practice.
Every bite, every thought, every movement is a vote for who you’re becoming.
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What’s My Focus for 2026?
My goal is to live every day as fully as I can, engaged, active, and strong, as living evidence that the aging-equals-decline narrative is incomplete and wrong.
My life, healthy, medication-free, curious, learning daily, creating, and thriving, demonstrates what’s possible when maintenance replaces neglect. I don’t consider myself special. I don’t credit genetics or luck. What I represent is far more accessible than that.
What’s My Next Adventure
I had an absolutely great time bikepacking in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. This was my final adventure for 2025 and my Good Night 2025 Overnighter with Bikepacking Roots.
What’s Your Next Adventure?
Strides and Rides
Up For a Challenge?
Instead of writing New Year’s resolutions this year, try creating a one-word personal theme for 2026.
What’s a personal theme?
A personal theme is a single guiding idea that focuses your attention, informs your choices, and shapes how you show up for an entire year.
Give it a try.
What will your theme be?
What Does it Mean to be an Adventurer in 2026?
An adventurer isn’t just someone who goes places, but someone who becomes someone through the places they go.
During 2026, being an adventurer isn’t about travel, bucket lists, or proving anything.
It’s about living in pursuit of aliveness, resilience, and personal evolution.
2026 could be the year that adventure becomes your new identity.
Adventures are not miles—it’s your mindset
The Reinvention Generation begins now.
Most people drift into retirement with resignation and low expectations. But what if the most rebellious thing you could do in retirement is refuse to decline, refuse to deteriorate, and train for health and vitality? In a world where aging quietly is normal, aging loudly becomes revolutionary. Let’s give that a try!
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What is Strides and Rides?
Strides represent the steps we take on foot—walking, hiking, training, or simply choosing to move with intention. It’s about progress, effort, and the commitment to keep moving forward even when the pace is slow. It’s symbolic of personal growth, fitness, and momentum.
Rides speak to the journeys we take on wheels—biking across a state, exploring new trails, or embracing the freedom and joy of movement. It’s about adventure, exploration, and pushing your limits.
Together, Strides and Rides is a metaphor for how we live:
It’s not just about covering ground—it’s about choosing how and why we move.
Whether you’re walking a neighborhood trail or riding across the state, Strides and Rides is about moving through life with purpose, power, and joy.
2025: What Worked, What Matters.
Keep showing up. The way forward reveals itself.
If you don’t know which path to take in retirement, stop searching outward and start putting all your energy into pursuing yourself.
Make it your purpose to become the healthiest, fittest, most present, and confident version of who you can be.
Do that long enough, and the way forward doesn’t need to be found. It emerges beneath your feet.
Adventure is the lifestyle. Reinvention is the result.
Strides & Rides is a movement for those who refuse to age quietly.
It’s where strength, creativity, and adventure collide—proving that reinvention is not a phase, but a lifestyle.
I think we should train our bodies, challenge our limits, and express our stories out loud.
This is not fitness.
This is not cycling.
This is a declaration:
Life gets bigger when you do.
