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Riding Through The Pain: April 2011
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Saturday, April 2, 2011. Day 5: Innsbruck to Venice. The drive was really scenic as we wound in and out of tunnels through Brenner Pass As we made our way into Italy you could tell right away where we were. The trees different and there were vineyards everywhere. After dinner, we hurried back to the harbor to catch our ferry back to mainland, then we drove a short while to our hotel in Mestre. Next day we just had a fairly short drive to the city of Rome. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Riding Through The Pain: October 2010
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Sunday, October 10, 2010. All in all, it was weekend of great racing on great courses with some awesome weather. This would probably be my last trip up to Edmonton for the year so glad for all the good times and awesome company. Photo Credits: Ken Hurd. Saturday, October 9, 2010. Jim Horner Grand Prix. I decided to head up to Edmonton to do the next series of races as I was now pretty close to my Expert upgrade, so I figured I’d be able to do it by the end of the weekend. Sunday, October 3, 2010. The nex...
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Riding Through The Pain: May 2010
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Sunday, May 16, 2010. Salty Dog 6 Hour Enduro. GPS Data: http:/ connect.garmin.com/activity/33876534. For me this wasn’t so much a race…but a test to my training plan this year. I was never a big fan of endure races and my last one did not really go the way I had planned, but my team seems to love them and about 90% of the team signed up to do this…so it was pretty much already guaranteed to be a great time. So I figured I wasn’t tired enough yet. Result: 29/84 in my age category. Sunday, May 2, 2010.
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Riding Through The Pain: April 2010
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Friday, April 9, 2010. Day 6: Porcupine Rim. Http:/ connect.garmin.com/activity/29514640. Today's ride got the Canadian treatment. No driving and no shuttles. We were going to ride from town, up Sands Flats road and back to the condo, which adds about 9 miles to the ride. It was going to be a tough slog up the road after 5 consecutive days of riding.but we all wanted to maximize time in the saddle. Overlooking Castle Valley at the lookout point. Halfway down the singletrack section. This was my last ride...
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Riding Through The Pain: Banff Bike Fest Criterium
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Monday, July 11, 2011. Banff Bike Fest Criterium. The first road race of the year is always the most nerve-racking….and this race is not for the timid. I had gone down to Banff last year to watch Cyrus race and the atmosphere had been incredible and the many crashes…not so incredible, but I still wanted to be part of the show. 8221; Awesome. Now I have to kick ass. Staging started and I seeded myself in the first row. The countdown began, the racers silenced and the crowd cheered. My first offici...The 4...
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Riding Through The Pain: March 2010
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Saturday March 27th, 2010 Road Ride GPS Data. Http:/ connect.garmin.com/activity/28212627. How is it that random musings can turn into a long suffer ride? I was joking a few weeks ago when I riding around with Brent that we haven't had a ride where someone was begging for food in a ditch on the side of the highway, so what happens? An e-mail sent out for a 150km group ride. Saturday, March 20, 2010. Until about 2 years ago, I had been a pretty dedicated mountain biker, if you a...
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Riding Through The Pain: March 2011
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Sunday, March 13, 2011. Day 4: Munich to Innsbruck. The next day I when I woke up, I felt amazingly pretty good despite having 2L of beer. Not even a trace of a hangover or a headache which I usally get when I drink that much (for me that's a lot). Today, we were driving to Austria but it was supposed to be a pretty short drive but we were still going to have a pretty full day. Out first stop was the in the country side to see the infamous Neuschwanstein Castle. After we got back on the bus, we kept on d...
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Riding Through The Pain: July 2011
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Monday, July 11, 2011. Banff Bike Fest Criterium. The first road race of the year is always the most nerve-racking….and this race is not for the timid. I had gone down to Banff last year to watch Cyrus race and the atmosphere had been incredible and the many crashes…not so incredible, but I still wanted to be part of the show. 8221; Awesome. Now I have to kick ass. Staging started and I seeded myself in the first row. The countdown began, the racers silenced and the crowd cheered. My first offici...The 4...
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Riding Through The Pain: January 2011
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Day 3: St. Goar to Munich. Imagine being in Germany for your first night then at 5am you are woken up by an air raid siren. I didn’t know if it was some sort of wake up call or if something was happening but needless to say after the almost a minute of full on siren (and several more off in the distance)….I went back to sleep. After the beer hall, most of us got on the coach and made our way back to the hotel where my roommate proceeded to pass out after having about 4 steins.
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Riding Through The Pain: August 2010
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Saturday, August 21, 2010. Speed Theory Speedfest Crit. Seems to be getting harder to write in any blog updates right now. It’s combination of more time spent training and I don’t really feel like it.so this will be a pretty short recap. Photo credits to all the photgraphers who posted links up on the Speed Theory blog. Sunday, August 15, 2010. I should really take a break. I really wasn't going to do this race. I wanted to do the Speed Theory stage race to finish off my road season and then start re...