A Case for Suffering

Retired U.S. national team racer James Hibbard explores cycling's fetishization of pain.

For Chris Case, the hour proved the perfect way to test the potential of man and machine — and the fastest way to hurt like never before.

Chris Case takes on the challenging terrain of Eroica California, and learns something of what it was to ride in the golden age of cycling

Managing editor Chris Case describes the agony and ecstasy of taking on the incomparable Taiwan KOM Challenge.

There’s a swelling, pounding, throbbing block of meat inside my skull. Am I going to die, or is this just cyclocross?

Chris Case finds plenty of suffering at La Ruta and nearly falls to his death on the final bridge before Playa Bonita

Chris Case makes another Case for Suffering as he burns across the Utah and Nevada desert and learns even more about pain and perseverance

In search of the perfect dirt-road link-up, Chris Case celebrates the Zinn Fondo with 20,000 feet of climbing, many of them on back roads

When alone and beaten down by the wind and the Flint Hills, a constant stream of calculations keeps a rider moving toward 205 miles

In his latest entry, Chris Case talks about missing out on a chance to ride in Flanders ... and then discovering it in rural New England

In his latest entry, Chris Case talks about finishing a 100-mile ride with almost 16,500 feet of climbing

On a hunt for hurting, Christopher Case checks in with Rebecca Rusch to talk pain and her upcoming record attempt on the Kokopelli Trail

When you reach the "epic" point of a ride and it's not enough, just keep pedaling

Sometimes the ride is motivation enough, but sometimes our relationship with suffering is what pulls us onto the saddle