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I was lucky enough to enter cycling during the 10 speed bike craze in the early 1960’s, when a back injury forced me out of high school track and basketball, and onto a racing bike.  I competed as a part of what would now be called the National Team from 1964 to 1972, and then had a career as one of the first U.S. professional riders from 1973 through 1975.  During those years I competed mainly on the cycling velodrome, and raced constantly throughout North and South America, and in Europe and Australia.   When I ‘retired’ in 1975, I finished up my undergraduate work in Exercise Physiology, went to graduate schools for my California teaching credentials in multiple areas, and began teaching in a Riverside, California high school.  After the birth of our daughter, Amy, I taught for 3 years in Oregon, where our daughter, Anna, was born.  During those years, I returned to amateur Category 1 racing, and raced throughout the West Coast area – then, always on the road, and never on the track.  The many hard crashes that I had suffered during my years of track racing had led me to a safer form of the sport. In the early 1990’s, we moved to Texas to work with a corporate cycling team there – as both cycling coach and physiologist.  With the ending of that sponsorship in early 1999, I went into clinical exercise physiology and spent the next several years doing pre-operative cardiac testing on the very morbidly obese patient.   In 2007, my wife Robin (shown in the picture above) and I moved to her hometown of Carbondale, Illinois.  Here, the country roads are hilly, but beautiful and traffic free, and we can train many miles without worry.  I have retired from the exercise physiology work, and have gone into my long time passion of fine art oil painting full time.   As an exercise physiologist and Olympian, I believe in the value of regular and constant exercise more than ever, and am always willing to help anyone in need.  Feel free to contact me at skip.cutting@olympianfineart.com or through my website at www.ol.ympianfineart.com.