Last year, like plenty of regular 13-year-olds, Zachary Gottesman got a new bike from his parents. But, Gottesman isn’t a normal 13-year-old.
Though he’d ridden casually as a kid with his parents, Gottesman had never tried seriously riding on the road. He took his new road bike out for one ride around Paradise Drive and a few days later entered his first-ever race, the Memorial Day Criterium in San Jose.
“I just decided I wanted to try racing,” he said — and so he jumped right in … More