NEXTnc caught up with Meredith Miller, pro cyclist with the TEAM Lipton through e-mail. Miller, 33, of Fort Collins, is in Italy participating in several races and is basically kicking butt. Here’s what she had to say: ———

NEXTnc: Why did you decide to come to Fort Collins? MILLER: My husband and I moved to Fort Collins in January 2007 from Auckland, New Zealand, because he was offered a job at Colorado State University in the Deptartment of Health and Exercise Science.

We very much enjoyed New Zealand, but the opportunity at CSU was too good to pass up.

Although we had never spent extended periods of time in Colorado, we knew that life would be good here — the outdoor lifestyle that Colorado offers suits us perfectly and being in a college town again greatly appealed to us. It really wasn’t a difficult decision to return to such a beautiful part of the U.S.

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