Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, seen here racing in Granby, Colorado in 2010, was America’s top cross-country racer in America for a total of five years. JHK won the U.S. National cross-country title in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2009. Jeremy also competed in the 2004 Olympics, finishing 21st in that event.
Only Ned Overend, who won the U.S. national title six times, has won more men’s cross-country titles in America than JHK.
JHK was running with the number one on his plate in the above photo when he finished second at the National Championships in 2010. That was the year when Todd Wells won his first of three national XC titles in the U.S.
Jeremy also won the USA’s Marathon National Championship in 2009 and 2010, giving him a total of seven national titles.
Jeremy didn’t quit racing then, either. “I stopped racing XC in 2012/2013, but continued with Trek’s Enduro World Series team through 2015,” Jeremy told us. He won four Big Mountain Enduro races from 2013 to 2014, competing in the pro ranks.
A few years earlier, Jeremy married his longtime girlfriend and Trek teammate, Heather Irmiger, who won America’s Elite Women’s Cross-country National Championship in 2009. Jeremy and Heather have two kids together.
Jeremy and his mountain biking buddy Mike Koenig started making and selling backyard bike sheds in 2008, when Jeremy was still at the top of his racing career. Before long they had turned that practice into a business called “Studio Shed.” Their company sells its prefabricated sheds in all 50 states, offering a wide selection of design choices, some of which can be large and luxurious enough for people to live inside them, after the options of windows, kitchens, bathrooms, air conditioning, and heating are added to the them.