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Ryan Morris

I'm a Canadian studying Engineering at Cornell University, graduating in 2008. I was a rower for 6 years before I was hit by a car on my bike while attempting to qualify for the Athens Olypmics and got into cycling as a result somehow. After taking a year leave from school in '04-05 to work as a roughneck in the Northern Alberta oil fields and tour around Europe for 4 months by bike, I'm now totally committed to becoming a professional cyclist in Europe. I'll be living in Tucson, AZ and Boulder, CO for the first half of 2007 to train full time and continue improving while racing. I'm a cat 1 now after two seasons and a TT specialist. I've been using Powercranks since January 2004 (roughly 30,000 miles on them).

*Update Mar 2008, Ok, it's been forever since I've updated this: I have essentially retired from cycling and turned my efforts to the capital investment world that I temporarily left for cycling. Unfortunately cycling was too small of a field for me in terms of change and new information being created. I've been primarily motivated my whole life by learning new things and trying to grow as much as possible myself and helping others. Investing and cycling are similar problems from my perspective - both about getting a complete understanding of complex & opaque systems (your physiology in cycling, a business & the market in investing) and using that understanding to make better decisions and actions towards a goal (going faster in cycling / making people money in investing). Thanks to everyone for their support and I wish the cycling world the best.

Highlight results:
-13 wins in 2006 season
-2nd NCCA Track Championships: pursuit (first time on a track!)
-3rd Canadian National Championships: U23 TT
-1st Ontario U23 TT Champion: '05, '06
-Mt Washington Hillclimb: Newton's Revenge: 7th (first person ever to complete it WITH Powercranks)

Blogs by this Author

Intro

Published 09/12/2006

Hi, my name is Ryan Morris and with the help of Powercranks and their 12 step program, I've been off of standard 180 degree opposed cranks since January 2004. Seriously though, I have been using...

Rates of Improvement

Published 09/12/2006

Powercranks have undoubtedly allowed me to improve at a faster rate than I would have had I found them - and used them as much as possible (i.e. always except when racing). Just to give an idea ...

Racing on the Track

Published 09/25/2006

Hi there Sportsfans!I just got back from my first track race ever this last week. It was the US Collegiate National Championships in Indianapolis, home of the speedway and the most ghetto hotel ...

Winter Training, who-hoo!

Published 11/19/2006

Ithaca has been getting into winter mode lately with the temperatures dropping and the sun disappearing. I literally haven't seen the sun for more than 20 seconds since a week and a half ago,...

Detraining to the max

Published 01/23/2007

Been a while since my last blog here, not too much to report on over the winter months. I've been in Tucson, AZ for the past two weeks crawling out of my detraining hole that I got into from 3 w...

Silent Spring

Published 04/25/2007

Sorry for being so absent for the past couple months, but I've not exactly been super excited about how my spring has been going. I drove 17 hours to California in mid March for my first Pro N...

Getting High ...

Published 02/28/2007

So I just moved to Boulder, CO a week ago to hook up with my new teammates from Team Rio Grande, the sweetest Mexican restaurant in the rockies and by far the best margaritas. I guess a lot ha...