Archive

Blog, 2009–2025.

A personal blog that ran, with long pauses, from 2009 to 2025. Triathlon, training, photography, half-serious mayoral campaigns, and occasional essays. Preserved in place so the links keep working.

2025

• What the hell am I even doing with my life? 2025-04-21

2019

• Tremblant 2019: What happened? 2019-08-26
• The resurgence of the personal blog 2019-01-07

2014

• On Picking a Side of the Political Spectrum 2014-01-10
• The Good and the Not-So-Good—the Competition 2014-01-08
• Day one of my mayoral campaign 2014-01-04
• Geodee for Mayor of Toronto. No, seriously 2014-01-02

2013

• Ironman Cozumel 2012 Race Report 2013-01-02

2012

• Polarman 2013 2012-12-09
• Ironman St. George race report - part 3 2012-05-11
• Ironman St. George race report - part 2 2012-05-11
• Ironman St. George race report - part 1 2012-05-10
• Another brick in the (Veyo) wall 2012-04-15
• Estimating power output 2012-04-14
• Time trials and errors 2012-04-13
• Peak planning using training stress scores 2012-04-09
• The 20-hour training week—last build before Ironman St. George 2012-04-08
• On the fly hydration mods 2012-04-05
• My Training Q1 report (aka: the reason I decided to sign up for Ironman St. George) 2012-04-03
• When do you know you've reached your racing weight? 2012-03-21
• Project Winter Survival 2012 2012-01-21
• 2011 training review 2012-01-06
• It's so cold that 2012-01-03

2011

• Monday's brick workout - how kick ass on your own terms 2011-10-04
• Ironman Syracuse 70.3 race report: Swan Lake - The Triathlon 2011-09-22
• Ironman Syracuse 70.3 race report: Swan Lake - The Triathlon 2011-09-22
• Guelph Lake II race report 2011-09-21
• Guelph Lake II race report 2011-09-21
• You can't win them all, but sometimes you can still sneak in late goal 2011-08-29
• Last weekend's training 2011-08-26
• 3 hours in the life of a cyclist. This is what my Sunday morning looked like. 2011-08-22
• 3.8 km L.O.S.T. Race report: last weekend's time got smoked 2011-08-13
• Welland MSO Open Water Swim race report 2011-08-08
• A 1.86 k swim race and what over 40 km of self-powered travel over water in a weekend looks like 2011-08-02
• A compromise for bikes and cars for Jarvis #savejarvis 2011-07-13
• This is how the eff you do Ikea! 2011-06-05
• From concept to photography to hand modelling to layout. Here's how the June @graphicarts cover came to be. 2011-05-26
• What if everybody plugged in their EV at the same time? 2011-04-18
• Garmin in the pool results 2011-04-05
• How to use a Garmin 305 to log heart rate data in the pool 2011-04-02
• Twelve step program: modifying an old cycling shoe for a midsole cleat position 2011-03-17
• George's fitness: 2010 year in review 2011-01-12

2010

• I just beat the google reader game. 300,000 items read since January 2007. 2010-10-16
• This must be the scariest hiking trail I've seen. 2010-10-16
• Fall colours ride with TTC 2010-10-02
• Overheard in a suburban Illinois hotel bar 2010-09-20
• Salvaging data from a bad race - Edge 305 GPS accuracy while swimming and accounting for navigation errors 2010-07-30
• Completed the Milton triathlon yesterday in a blazing fast 95 moments flat! 2010-07-04
• Impulsively entered an olympic distance tri and actually finished! 2010-06-21
• Completed the Milton triathlon yesterday in a blazing fast 95 moments flat! 2010-06-07
• Time lapse - Project Winter Survival distribution day 2010-01-30
• Charlie Brooker explains how to report the news 2010-01-30
• HD time lapse - ben's cottage 2010-01-11

2009

• Hairshirt 2009 2009-07-02
• How to write your own bio without sounding like a jerk 2009-06-27
• Photographing your food without looking like a jerk 2009-06-26
• Lake Simcoe circle 2009-06-12