Sara Best Joins Ride-Strong.com Team

We’re pleased to announce that cycling journalist Sara Best will be joining the Ride-Strong.com team as a regular contributor starting next week.

Some of you may know Sara from her own blog – The First 100 Miles.

If not, here’s a bit about Sara in her own words:

I fell in love with cycling in 1989.  I was 14 years old and my dad convinced me to watch part of that summer’s Tour de France with him on TV. He was an avid amateur cyclist at the time and had recently completed back-to-back Centuries as part of the Seattle to Portland ride.

I watched as Greg LeMond beat Laurent Fignon on the Champs d’Elysee by eight seconds. Fignon collapsed from his bike onto the cobbles, sobbing at the heartbreaking loss. It was the closest Tour de France in history and right there, I was hooked.

Today I’m a freelance writer and a regular contributor to a handful of publications both in print and online including Pedal magazine, Bike Trade Canada magazine, the Daily Peloton.com, and The Paceline (the official site of the former Discovery Channel Team).

I’ve had the opportunity to interview people from all different areas of the cycling world but things really came full circle for me in April of last year when my work as a writer for Pedal magazine took me to a press conference with Greg LeMond in Toronto.  I was able to meet and interview the cycling legend one-on-one.  I told him about the day I fell in love with cycling and he told me with a grin that it had been a pretty good day for him too.

I’m really excited about joining the Ride-Strong.com team.  I hope you enjoy the posts!

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