The UofA Triathlon Club’s annual Spring Thaw triathlon came and went this past weekend. The club puts on the race as an effort to expose people to the sport of triathlon and get people out to try the multi-sport experience. Our club even received a few thousand dollars to subsidize race entry fees for UofA […]
Continue ReadingI ran the Calgary Police Half marathon in 1:36:23 on Sunday April 26. It was one of my least favorite races of all time but it did result in a personal best on the distance so in retrospect I am happy to have run it. I perhaps also learned a few things while running it, […]
Continue ReadingIt has been a few days since the race and I decided that it’s probably a good time to write down a few reflections of the marathon last weekend before the details are out of my head. Thursday morning I gave a presentation at school and after lunch got on a plane down to Abbotsford […]
Continue ReadingThe Birkebeiner is a 55 km ski race that happens annually just east of Edmonton at Blackfoot recreation area. It’s a Norwegian themed event in commemoration of a story of way back along time ago when some Norse guys saved the baby prince of Norway by carrying him 55 km on their backs to safety… […]
Continue ReadingThe stories of the last weekend are worth mentioning… I wound up bleeding from both hands, one elbow, a knee and an ankle on Sunday afternoon after crashing the Surly on Sunday afternoon on Scona Hill. I was also successful in a culinary experiment on Saturday evening. Saturday’s accomplishments involved hitting the pool for a […]
Continue ReadingThursday morning arrived early as usual… actually the earliest day yet in my experience I agreed to wake up at 5:30 if you believe it. Steph was going to try riding the whole day and wanted an early start. So I crawled out of my tent and had it packed away by the time breakfast […]
Continue ReadingSo, if you’re reading other blogs about this bike trip there’s a good chance that you haave already heard that there was a little excursion on Monday that added a few miles to the route for three cyclists. If you are only reading this blog, I’m sorry that there wasn’t an update on Monday but […]
Continue ReadingWhen in Central America, tap water is off limits and buying it from the store is no fun when beer is approximately the same price. So I made sure I capitalized on the opportunity to try as many different kinds over the vacation as I could. Cerveza Dos Equis Cerveza Superior Cerveza el Sol Belikan […]
Continue ReadingDerek got married in Whitecourt this weekend. It’s about 180 kms “nominally” from Edmonton to Whitecourt so I figured it would be a good bike ride, an Iron kind of effort… it would be the furthest I’d ever ridden but not by a whole bunch so I figured it would be a good opportunity to […]
Continue ReadingAn interesting thing that Nathan Nelson Fitzpatrick pointed out to me last week in the eng-phys club… I’ve watched a couple episodes, some are really good and others are a bit of a waste of time but as of yet I think it’s one of the best places online that’ll help you learn a thing […]
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