What do you do when the little voice telling you you're not good enough shows up in the one place you thought was safe? Contributor Mérida Miller has spent years battling those voices aka "The Itty Bitty Shitty Committee," and when it started crashing her rides, she got to work. A funny, field-tested list of ways to quiet the spiral. From rhino power poses to horse-lip resets to full-on growling on the bike.

Jeremy Ford of Team Africa Rising returns with his mid-year update on the UCI Africa Tour rankings. With national championships across a dozen countries complete and races like the Tours of Algeria, Mauritius, Benin and Cameroon in the books, he breaks down who's moved, who's risen, and what to watch for as the season heads into its second half.