Archive for July, 2008
UBC’s August 2008 Star Treker Award
This is totally cool! Check out who won the August award! Each month, TREK celebrates an individual who has made a commitment to sustainable transportation. TREK wants to hear about the inspiring individuals at UBC who bike, walk, carpool, bus or have found other ways to make their commute to campus more sustainable. The only [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2008 under Everything Else.
Comments: 3
An Epic Ride from Seattle to Portland
Here’s my description of the STP. It’s a 200 mile ride (322km on my bike computer) from Seattle to Portland. No, it doesn’t follow the I5! You can check out the route map and see that we were on beautiful country roads the whole time. We even spent over an hour on a bike path! [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2008 under Bike, Race Report.
Comments: 1
My Trading Buddy from Worlds
She was a serious haggler. After offering me 2-3 kid sized shirts that she brought from Mexico, she settled on trading her (Mum’s) Mexico shirt for my Canada shirt. She had a whole bag of things and was serious about the trading business. Mum looked on with all smiles as her and her brother ripped [...]
Posted: July 18th, 2008 under Everything Else.
Comments: none
So, How Was The Ride?
Epic… I did the Populaire ride in 5:48, although it’s very arbitrary how they assign your time. The guy who arrived after me got an arrival time of 5 minutes earlier. I started the day by adding a detour of 7km to the route. I was following a bike group out on River Road, caught [...]
Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under Bike, Race Report.
Comments: 4