Carl and Laura met in 2011 after her plumber convinced Laura to get back into mountain biking. He told her of this group ride he attended on weekends and that is where she met Carl who kept the positive encouragement flowing as she rolled over a new rock etc . In the years to come, whenever she got lost or crashed, Carl was there to take her to get stitches and pick up the pieces. At that point she realized this guy was pretty awesome and started to do more mountain bike racing and continued to chase Carl on group rides on the road and in the woods. In 2018 after returning from Australia for her 40th, Carl designed and build up a beautiful fast road bike for her, and even engraved the top of the stem with a cat and a motivational quote! Now she could keep up on the group road rides! It wasn’t until a trip to Kingdom Trails in VT for Carl’s birthday in 2020 when they started to make their friendship into something more. Now they are marrying their best friends!