Notre objectif avec cette route était de créer un itinéraire de Bike Packing à la fois aventureux et accessible. Par accessible, on veut dire que la route peut être complété en 2 ou en 3 jours...donc en un seul weekend! Puis, nous nous sommes assurés d'inclure plusieurs options d'accommodations et de restaurants. Alors si le camping vous excite, vous aurez la chance de camper! Mais si vous avez envie de prendre une douche, aller à l'hôtel, et manger au restaurant, c'est aussi possible! Pour plus d’info sur la route, veuillez visiter la collection Komoot ci-bas. David lave les bikes et s’assu ..read more

The holidays are coming up! As a cyclocross racer, we don’t actually celebrate Christmas since we are always racing in Europe during the holidays, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy thinking about the holidays. The day I retire from pro cx racing, the world is not ready for the Christmas party I am going to throw!! But for now, here is my 2021 Gift Guide. I just chose a few products that I’ve really liked this year. Some of these products I am sponsored by, and some not at all. Truthfully, these are just products I particularly enjoyed this year, so I thought I’d share. For more ideas, you ca ..read more

How I use WHOOP As athletes, we always want to get better and achieve more. We learn to push our bodies and mental limits everyday in the hopes of expending our comfort zones. In fact, we often have to ignore the pain or fatigue that we feel in order to push and create gains. The paradox is that this attitude and “grit” that allowed us to reach a certain level in our athletics endeavours could also be the thing that prevents us from reaching the next level. In other words, it is the case of “what got you here won’t get you there”. It is with the goal of getting “there” that I decided to start ..read more

Vendredi soir, alors que David et moi faisions la reconnaissance du parcours de la Coupe Canada de Sherbrooke, j’ai eu une impression de déjà-vu. Il y avait des petites foules de gens rassemblées à la fameuse “drop” puis au “step-up” qui sont si synonymes du parcours de Sherbrooke. Autour de ces deux obstacles, une sensation de nervosité et de fébrilité dans l’air étaient palpables. J’ai eu un flash de nostalgie. Je me suis revue en 2013, à ma première année de retour en vélo de montagne. Cette année là, les Jeux du Canada avaient lieux à Sherbrooke et c’était un gros objectif pour moi. Mais a ..read more

***Texte en Français plus bas. The month of May is International Bike Month, but it also happens to be one of my biggest month of training in terms of volume. This year, we want to put these training hours to good use and we want to invite YOU to join in on this month-long fundraising project for World Bicycle Relief. I am challenging you to join me and set a personal goal for how many hours you want to ride during the month of May and commit to supporting World Bicycle Relief’s effort to change the lives of others by providing robust bicycles to students, healthcare workers, and entrepreneurs ..read more

I love to take pictures. It’s a fun skill to learn for me, and a fun way to stay busy during our travels. Here are a few of my favorite images from Christmas Cross this year. Cheers, Maghalie Morning arrival in Belgium after our overnight flight. We rented the van and are enjoying our homemade oatmeal & coffee while waiting to meet up the guys from Cyclocross Custom who kept some equipment for us ..read more

As the season is coming to an end, I wanted to present to you the bike that I have been riding this season.  I love this bike. We’ve had a lot of good times together and I’m hoping the two of us have a few more good outings this year! I loved it so much, in fact, that I wrote a poem for it, and I’d like to share it with you. So, before going through the nuts and bolts of the bike built, here is my poem: “When the sun sets - an Ode to the Crux”. Illustration by Pip Claffey ..read more

We are already halfway through the month of November, temps have been below 0 for weeks at home, and we have more than 30cm of snow on the ground, so that can only mean one thing…winter and the holiday season are approaching! And although Christmas festivities are mostly inexistant when you are a cyclocross racer, I still thought it would be fun to keep up the tradition and create a holiday gift guide with some of my favorite cycling related products. This year’s guide will be a little different…I’ll pretend that I was gifting my own family, and I hope you will be able to relate one of your lo ..read more

"My biggest enemy is my inner me" . David and I have been watching a rap series called Rhythm and Flow, and one of the young rapper on the show keeps saying this. I can totally relate to that quote. For the longest time, I've always been my own worst enemy and my most fierce opponent. In a sense, I still am, but I've grown to really know and understand my inner me a lot better. I'm now more able to control myself and I've developed tricks & strategies to get the best out of myself on a regular basis. I'm sure everyone has been in a situation like this before: Let's say you're playing b ..read more

One of my good friend, Italian cyclocross & mountain bike champion Eva Lechner, always talks about "the fighting spirit". The fighting spirit is crucial to race well. It's that "zone" where you are fully focused in the race and you are battling as best you can. You attack each section, you fight for each position. A race without the fighting spirit is actually pretty boring...those are the days when you are stuck in your own head and can't get out of your own way...the days when if someone passes you, you don't even try to stay with them. I've had many of those days and they are horrible ..read more