One last chase at a childhood dream.

I love the Olympics. I find them so inspiring and globally unifying. It's my absolute favourite global event, let alone sporting event.

It was my dream to go to them as a mountain biker when I was a teenager. I started riding bikes at 3 years old and racing when I was 7. When I was 18, two days before my first World Cup race, I was cut before I ever had the chance to compete on the world stage. Not long after, I spent close to a decade fighting my way back from the most challenging injury of my life.

When I was 21 I got 3 concussions in a 3 month span. It took me two and a half years to stabilize my mental and physical health, and another 7 years to learn how to manage my new normal. Months in physical rehab. Years in psychological therapy.

Somewhere in there I became a CPA, started my own accounting firm the same day I got my designation, built it for three years and sold it to build Factors, the training app I now use every day.

In 2024, at nearly 30 years old, I got back on the bike. I know sport can't be the centre of my life forever, but I still have this childhood dream in me that's desperate to be fulfilled.

I crashed at the 2025 nationals and it scared the hell out of me, because it resulted in another concussion. Thankfully I knew how to deal with it, and I recovered within a month without any lingering symptoms. That recovery gave me back a sense of self-control I had lost 10 years earlier.

Looking back, I'm quite aware the concussions may have triggered the mental health roller coaster, but what kept it going was a lack of self-awareness around my habits, choices and actions. Recognizing that changed everything.

Now, at 32, I've been invited to train with some of the best in the world. I'm aiming for Brisbane 2032. No expectations for LA 2028, just training and following the process for as long as my body lets me keep progressing.

If I can give one piece of unsolicited advice to the younger me, it's this: take the time to learn yourself off the bike. You're already motivated enough to train like there's no tomorrow, but it's knowing yourself when you're resting, working and socializing that will help you enjoy the process, rather than surviving by clinging to hope and outcomes.

Let me be upfront. Getting to chase the Olympics at 32 is a privilege and a luxury. Most people never get to put a few years of their life toward a childhood dream, and I'm asking people to help fund mine. I don't take that lightly.

I'm a CPA. That's something I can always rely on for income, and one day I will again. So this isn't about whether I can earn a living. It's about how I spend these few years, whilst my body can still do this. For this era of my life, that time goes to training.

Why should I get this privilege? I shouldn't, any more than anyone else. But if I do get it, I'll give back with all my heart and resources the moment my athletic journey ends.

In some ways, that's already started. I've hired athletes to work at Factors Training, and I support them as best I can while they chase their own goals. They work tirelessly to grow the company outside of their own training.

And through Lametto Rose Race Team, a not-for-profit, we give Canadian development sprinters a path to the national team. When I stop racing, growing that team becomes my full focus.