James David Vanderpool

James Vanderpool lives in Fresno, California. He is the author of Sentenced to Survive, a memoir about growing up in the shadow of incarceration and learning, piece by piece, how to build a life on the other side of it. Vanderpool found an unexpected anchor in BMX racing at Woodward Park, where the sport's simplest rule — find your line and hold it — became a way of thinking about everything else. He's currently training toward next season with a clearer, more focused mindset, and spending this season working on himself as much as his riding