Adventures
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Road Racing in the Vuelta de Costa Rica is like doing interval sessions for 4 hrs a day, day after day after day. I havn't done intervals in 2 yrs and these intervals are the variety that last anywhere from
December 21, 2009
12 day road race starting on wednesday... )http://www.tourdequebec.com/article.php?sid=150Living with 4 teamates from Quebec, training in 28 degree temps.... good times.Getting ready to roll...
December 13, 2009
Post La Ruta is a weird time as the body and mind experience an aftershock something like what a drunk experiences when they try and sober up. This year the days of post La Ruta started in the small village
December 6, 2009
When it was snowing and minus 10 in Canada La Ruta seemed like a good idea. While pushing my bike through gongshow mud for 1.5 hrs in plus 33 temps with humidity on day 1 with Costa Ricans sprinting pass
November 17, 2009
For the second straight fall I have unexpectedly ended up in Costa Rica. It is starting to be a problem. Ready for a rest after 4 month and 5 month Central America adventures the past two winters, somehow I end
November 9, 2009
My fall was set to take place in Nanaimo at VIU going to school to be a faller. VIU will now be refered to as the school of Gongshows after they cancelled the course for the 4th straight time in
October 29, 2009
Time flies. And now its sept 21st and I havn't done a proper write up in over a month. I blame work. After having not worked more then a week in the past two yrs I finally got back to
September 22, 2009
The road trip to Cali hit a small bump in the road at the boarder crossing when we forgot to claim our apples. The boarderguard asked if we had any fruits or veggies but we figured he wouldnt check so
September 14, 2009
I tried finding work for the fall but the bush scene has dried up so I have had to resort to plan B, A Road Trip to California! Yah, life is tough in this economic downturn so it looks like
September 8, 2009
The Provincial XC race was pretty sweet on the weekend. Thanks to Crazy Larry, the Froehler family and all the other volunteers that showed up things went off pretty smoothly. Having a black bear with her cubs on course chasing
September 2, 2009
This weekend is the Alberta XC Provincials in Hinton. Nathan Froehler (Hinton race organizer from 2002) came up a few days ago and we've been sprucing up the trails he built over a decade ago into what is becoming a
August 29, 2009
Chalk one up for the treeplanting legs. After having a rougher start to the season the legs caught on fire for the Solo version of the TransRockies and I came across the line after 3 days of epic riding as
August 18, 2009