Health & Fitness
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 [...]
Jamie Oliver pleads with us to stop killing our kids with crappy food: www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html Blaise Aguera y Arcas will blow your mind with the next generation of augmented reality mapping tools. Makes Google Maps look like crayons and paper. www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html Running more effective board meetings. Not rocket science but good basic article. www.cloudave.com/link/running-more-effective-board-meetings-at-startups It turns [...]
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 [...]
Andy, I just heard today that you’re gone. Sorry to hear that mate. I enjoyed working out with you at Crossfit Vancouver. We called you “Nutts” for short because you were a big dumb-ass, always clowning around, but you always worked your ass off too. We were sad to see you go but knew you [...]
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 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.
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
I’ll keep this short or I’ll get all sappy. I love hanging out with this group and pushing our bodies and suffering together. It’s the best thing I could possibly do with my time. Thanks guys (and girls).
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. [...]
Thanks to Ean and Sibylle for throwing a great Club Fat Ass party – the Capilano Canyon Night Run. About 40 30 of us gathered at the William Griffin Rec Center tonight to do the run. Sibylle threw me out of the short distance group, so Blue and I joined the tail end of the [...]
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 [...]
Back at the beginning of July 2006, I signed up at a new gym called Crossfit here in Vancouver. I heard about them from a friend of mine who is in the emergency response team in a municipal police force and he had recommended them based on some information he had read. As you’ll see [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a great story about a dog helping to rescue Danielle Ballengee. I love these stories.
A few months ago I wrote about my friend Nick’s company and project called GiftTRAP. It is a board game with many twists. It contains over 600 photos collected from around the world, many of them from Flickr photographers. It is being used to raise money for charity for a non-profit entity called Right to [...]
If you haven’t read the LA Times article, the Men’s Health article, or the Men’s Journal article on Crossfit, you might not know what it is. It is a fitness regimen/program that started in LA about ten years ago and that is now spreading across North America, and which is favoured by the firefighting, police, [...]
My friend Boris Mann had some great things to say about Vancouver being an excellent place to join or start a company here in this posting. However, I would add “capital efficiency”, great education system, and an awesome talent pool to to the list of reasons that Vancouver is a great place to build a [...]
On October 23, 2005 Dane Jesper Kenn Olsen, 34 became the first person to successfully run, in daily increments ranging from 14-93km, one lap around the Earth on land masses, setting a Guinness Book of World Records record. What began from the Old Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, England on January 1, 2004, ended there [...]
Mark Morford strikes again. I have been having this very conversation with everybody I know. It seems that my entire circle of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances is in the midst of this overwhelming busy-ness right now. I have been questioning the value and the lack of stillness myself and then Mark, as usual, did it [...]
(If you are looking for the 2007 event information, please click HERE.) I am very excited about our launch of the 30 Days of Sustainability. For the month of March, Vancouver will host a cornucopia of events and activities, all focused around bringing sustainability to our lives and our city. One key component of the [...]
I caught this story about the death of Paul Pearce, a runner in the UK, through a Google link and had to post it. It sounds like this guy was awesome. I love that they asked for people not to wear black ties but to come in running gear instead. Good luck Paul in the [...]
If you haven’t checked it out yet, check out “Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever” by Ray Kurzweil. It’s his newest book. The premise is that there are three bridges to get us to a nearly unlimited life span. The first is using what we already know. The second bridge is using biotechnology [...]
Wow. Here is an interesting study that was pointed out to me by Ed Sim on his BeyondVC blog. QUOTE: A survey of 336 entrepreneurs found those who regularly run reported better personal satisfaction, independence and autonomy than their non-running or weight-training counterparts. The study also found that companies managed by runners report better sales [...]
This article from News.com.au discusses the research findings of a team in Australia that found that eating those seven foods every day resulted in five to six years more life and a 76% decrease in cardiovascular disease. Sounds like a good plan to me!
Many of you know that one of my favourite columnists is Mark Morford, who writes for the San Francisco Gate news. This is this weeks rant on Canada’s policies versus those of his own government. It’s a fantastic read and nice to see that at least one American is aware of what is going on [...]
Now your board members can’t say that the board meeting is stopping them from getting any exercise! Just have it while riding the Conference Bike! Although you would probably be well advised to make sure that the person steering doesn’t also have to chair or do secretarial tasks.
This is an extremely long post on Massive Change, the multi-media exhibition that is intended to be the starting point for a global discussion on the role of design in creating our world. Here is a bit from their website that gives you a sense of the goals of the project.
