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After resting for a week to let an inflamed leg tendon heal up I showed up in Jasper Sept 3rd for a mini training camp before the Bow 80. After three days of solid riding it was time for some tapering. Tapering (aka being lazy) is not one of my best virtues, esepecially when the […]

Kris and I had a great flash trip to Quebec for Marathon Nationals. The race was centred around the small village of Saint Raymond about 1 hr west of Quebec city. The start/finish line was on main street with a large noisy crowd which went nuts as they called up the local heroes Raphael Gagne

It has been a battle getting things glued back together after the 2.5 week stint over in Mongolia. For some reason flying east around the globe kicks a guy in the ass a lot more then flying west. We left Mongolia Aug 11th at 11:45 am and got in to Vancouver Aug 11th 11:45 am.

The Mongolia Bike Challenge starts this Sunday and runs through til August 9th. As the race takes place out in the middle of another planet the race updates will be uploaded via a very expensive internet system with all the daily reports, results and pictures coming up first on www.mongoliabikechallenge.com I will also be doing

What a week! BC Bike Race 2012. Day 1: Cumberland: 13th My teammate Barry Wicks won a three up sprint for first to take the leaders Jersey. I got schooled. I’m not sure if it was the two long travel days before the race, the lack of a good lead up ride to open up

A couple weeks back in your hometown can do a person alot of good. The riding in Jasper is soooo good. Endless flowing trails, a couple solid road rides, a few mtn lookouts and a great homegrown bikeshop in Freewheel Cycle. The boys (& girls) down there love to ride and fix bikes and talk

The Test of Metal in Squamish BC was a weird weekend. After 2 weeks of very light training and finishing off bingeing on antibiotics things were starting to look up again. Being a little bummed at not racing Nationals or the World Cup it was time for a change of scenery so I decided on

Holy Hell. 6 weeks of training my immunity and my body’s ability to race while it is at war with itself is enough! I learned two very valuable things this past while. A) if a tooth is being a bastard, get it fixed. Ignoring pain is good while racing but not when its in your

Here is the finished product from an interview down in Tucson this past February with the UK based Privateer Magazine! http://cog.konaworld.com/archives/12356

This past week after the Salty Dog there was a total of 4 hrs of biking and 6 days of feeling like I got run over by a freight train full of coal. The last of the Penicillin was used up, there was one more round of visits to the doc and dentist today and

The 6hr Salty Dog race in Salmon Arm last weekend was a lot like the Toronto Maple Leafs 2012 hockey season.   A complete 100% catastrophic meltdown.  On the first lap I set a solid tempo up the first climb and to my pleasure had a solid gap on the field.  Riding within my means

This weekend is the 6hr Salty Dog Marathon in Salmon Arm BC.  It is going to be rad as the trails are great and the atmosphere is pretty cool with 400 + bike riders out in force to battle it out for freshly baked apple pies.  The crew from Balance Point Racing will be there.