Monthly Archives: August 2011
You can’t win them all, but sometimes you can still sneak in late goal
The lead story for September’s Graphic Arts Magazine issue is a preview of GRAPH EXPO in Chicago next month. We’ll be bringing this issue down to the show, and hopefully some people will find value in using it as a … Continue reading
Last weekend’s training
Last week was my longest training week since July 09, when I had just completed my 322k+ Hairshirt ride. The next month I started learning how to swim, so really this was my longest triathlon training week ever. It started … Continue reading
3 hours in the life of a cyclist. This is what my Sunday morning looked like.
Trying out my camera on the first 75k of a 100k bike this past weekend. The mount was slipping a lot, but it was still a gorgeous ride. Continue reading
3.8 km L.O.S.T. Race report: last weekend’s time got smoked
Melanie Price’s completion of her 42 km Lake Ontario crossing yesterday morning in Coronation Park must have been fresh on my mind, because that’s where I drove to first this morning. It was about ten minutes out from the race … Continue reading
Welland MSO Open Water Swim race report
After yesterday’s epic 101k loop of the Muskoka half-iron course I felt like I could use a day to recover. So I packed my speedos and headed down to Welland for the Under the Four Bridges MSO Open Water Provincial … Continue reading
A 1.86 k swim race and what over 40 km of self-powered travel over water in a weekend looks like
This weekend was a total convergence of awesome. B and S invited me up to B’s cottage in Honey Harbour for the long weekend. There was also a swim race at Kempenfest on Saturday that coach Ayesha told us about. I … Continue reading