Name: Mark Hotchkin

DOB: Jan. 1, 1981

Racing Category: 3 (and masters…but only 30+)

Bike(s): Trek Madone 6.2, Specialized Transition TT, Cannondale Capo single speed

Favorite Race(s): Frankenmuth, Milwaukee Lakefront, Mt. Pleasant…any long road

race!

Family: Parents Miller and Deanna, Godmother Alison, younger brother Greg, and wife

(as of July 8, 2011) Lori

Interests & Hobbies: Coffee, Traveling, cross country skiing, maps, word and number puzzles, going for

walks/hikes, and dominating fantasy cycling competitions.

I’ve always loved the freedom that cycling gives me. Since I started racing seriously, it

has brought me to all kinds of amazing friendships, places and experiences. And going

dangerously fast through pure physical force (and pain) feels amazing.

One of my favorite experiences recently was July 2008 when I raced an entire week of

Superweek while tent camping by myself in Wisconsin. My favorite result was when I

returned to Superweek in 2009 and won the Lakefront Road Race (cat. 3) in Milwaukee

with a solo breakaway and with huge support from my teammates Geoff and Peter.

In my early years of racing, I signed up for a 3-on-3 basketball tournament with some

friends. By the end of the day, I could barely walk and my legs were incredibly sore.

The problem was that I had also signed up for the Michigan time trial championship the

following day. The typical hour of pain for the 40 KM race turned into well over an hour

of leg-searing agony as I struggled to keep going forward. Lesson learned…don’t play

basketball during racing season.

I twice competed in the National 24-Hour Challenge, with my longest distance being 263

miles.