Cory Wallace

The final stage of the tour started with a flat 50 km ride down an asphalt bike path. The first 25 km of this was sketchy as we had over 300 riders onto the fairly skinny bike path.  It was a non stop battle to keep your position as riders were overly excited to get […]

Stage 3 was considered the “Queens stage” of this years race as it rolled 82 km over two mountains between Kirchberg & Kaprun (Host of the 2002 World XC Championships).  All the beds were taken in Kirchberg so we backtracked to Lofer to spend the night.  This would’ve been a splendid plan but the recent

Hopping in a cold shower this morning I new it was going to be a good day on the bike as my body embraced the freezing water.  Yesterday my body shied away from the cold shower. I’m starting to figure the response to the cold shower is a sign of how much my body will

Bike 4 Peaks started today in Bavaria, Germany with the first stage heading 69 km over some small mountains from Ruhpolding, Germany to Lofer Austria.  It started with a 20-kilometer neutral start on the highway as the original route had been recently washed out by torrential rains.  After getting screwed over pretty good in the

The Alpen Tour ended with the mother of all rainstorms, flooding and ultimately the cancelation of the 4th and final stage.  With the stage cancelled I opted to bundle up in all my North Face rain gear and head out for a little tour of the countryside to see just what sort of flooding was

The 3rd stage of the Alpen was cut down by 20 km to avoid the high alpine snow. Thus making the estimated win time 2.5 hrs instead of 3.5. Shortening races is never cool, but in these circumstances it was a wise choice. After being the polite Canadian in stage 1 and giving away 175

Stage 2 of the Alpen Tour was a 15 km, 1100 M vertical time trial up the ski hill here in Schladming Austria. It would’ve been a great day to be skiing down the hill, to be riding up there in spandex and bare skin was about as logical as having a soccer match on

After 12 years of racing I finally managed to check off my first race over in Europe, the centre of the cycling universe. It was a humdinger as 500 + riders set out to tackle a 69 km, 2900 M vertical course in the Austrian Alps. The x-factor today was the weather which served up

Getting to Pemberton turned into a solid run around which ended with Cody nearly crashing into a Black bear with her cubs.  Finishing off our pre-ride around 9 pm, Cody came ripping around a corner to find mother bear and her cubs.  Mother bear wasn’t super pleased as she backed away a few steps, then

My roommate Cody Canning and I packed up what felt like most of our Condo and headed off  to Pemberton for the weekend to race the Nimby 50.    The race is said to be a rad 35 km loop up on the mountains surrounding Pemberton.  I’m stoked to be finally getting a chance to do

Coming back from the America road trip it was a treat to get 12 straight days at home in Victoria.  I backed off the hours on the bike, focused on some hard efforts, and chiselled away the winter insulation.  Supplementing your diet at Nourish cafe and training alot with Mr Plaxton gets a person flying

The final stop on our America road trip was in the cowboy town of Prescott Arizona.  This town of 40 000 country folk was the capital of Arizona from 1864 to 1889, but more importantly is now host of the annual Whisky 50 mountain bike race.   The race attracts most of the top pros