Adventure
I think that the Sea to Sky Highway is going to become known as one of the most amazing road-bike rides in the world. The Whistler Granfondo is going to be a blast. Great training ride day today. 16k warmup and then 3 16k sprints. Click the map to follow along!
This weekend rocked. I was dead last but got personal bests on all my numbers and didn’t blow up (and did finish!) so I was still happy. Next year I’ll be competitive!
Luckily I’m training with my friends who’ve done it before. They’ve assured me that it will be a complete suffer-fest. I think their words of reassurance were something like: “you think you hurt now – just wait until hour 10 when everything from the neck down is just one big cramp.” Thanks. I’m also grateful [...]
Here is a photo of the Club Fat Ass “Fat Ass 50 New Years Run” hosted by none other than Ean “Action” Jackson, who not only started this run 17 years ago but also managed to run it as his 100th ultra. And thanks to Sibylle Tinsel-Jackson, the Chief Fat Ass, for all the organizational [...]
Here is a CrunchGear review of the new Vibram Five Fingers KSO Treks. I can’t wait to get and try a pair. I have the Classics and the regular KSOs and they’re great but I need more grip for the snow and also the mud in the trails near my place.
Here is the Mini Beachcomber concept car. COOOL.
To all the crazy inventors out there, can you please invent this for me? I spend my days working on a computer, looking at hundreds of windows, using 20-30 different applications, chatting across way too many channels. Frankly, it’s really not healthy for us to sit so long, work on laptops, and stare at little [...]
Here are some recent photos from the Red Rocks Nevada Rock Climbing Festival. It was a weekend of rock climbing, road-riding, yoga, and hanging out with friends both new and old. Great weekend. Can’t wait for next years.
My sister sent me this video and I just had to share it.
Not sure what to say. Too many conflicting emotions as I sit in Heathrow waiting for my flight back to Vancouver. Maye I will later. I’ll be listening to this all the way home. I got it from a very dear friend who means a great deal to me. “Breathe Me” by Sia (the soundtrack [...]
I decided to get out for a run in the cold sunny weather today and ran around Ile Saint-Louis: It was a crisp beautiful autumn day. I was the only runner in shorts, and one of the only runners out at ALL. There don’t appear to be many runners in Paris. Maybe I’m looking in [...]
Aujourd’hui
Today was my first weekday in the city. Unfortunately, there are no Crossfit gyms here in Paris. Seems like a business opportunity to me. There are about 30 gyms in downtown Paris, 22 of which are one chain. The first gym I found was actually a combination gay sauna, bar, and weight room. All in [...]
Hi all, Here are some pictures from Day 1 in Paris. I’ll be working and living here for the next two weeks. My blogging application is acting a bit weird so the images are all really small. I’ll try to fix it for the next posts. Here is Olivier at the Eiffel Tower. He was [...]
My time at Business Objects has finally come to a close. It was an awesome two years, with a lot of learning. I met a lot of extremely talented people there and through my association with the company. I was feeling the entrepreneurial urge again so i decided to throw myself back out of the [...]
I am signed up to race with a friend of mine for this year’s BC Bike Race, a 450-500km, 7 day stage race on mountain bikes that goes from Victoria to Whistler from July 1st to July 7th. We put together a blog so that people can follow along if they want as we train. [...]
Boy, you have to do a lot of work to escape the cloud and get near the sun when you live in Vancouver! But it was worth it. My friend Michael and I met at Seymour Mountain at 10am on Sunday morning. Even from the parking lot, we could see a thick white cloud cover [...]
Here is a little video I threw together about our epic snowshoe running day on Cypress Mountain yesterday. Remember to get out and enjoy winter while it’s here! Thanks Ean and Blue for a GREAT day. Hope to have many more of these before the snow leaves us again. This film was made entirely with [...]
