Alive With Sport

My best friend Jane and I have a great tradition of run/walking the Sun Run together. We’re in year two of our Sun Run tradition. We’ve been friends for 19 years now, so I’m hoping this tradition is one that we keep going for a long long time. This picture is from [...]

Long distance bike rides make coffee + treats taste really really good. At about the 135km mark, I took a 20min break in Fort Langley and enjoyed a delicious butter tart at my favorite coffee shop. It was awesome – the coffee break, I mean. Yes, the ride was good too – [...]

Looking back, the first week of April was a good strong week of riding that included a mid-week ride to Horseshoe Bay and the 100km Pacific Populaire.
We had absolutely gorgeous weather for the Populaire. In fact, the ride started 30min late because the sign up line went down a block and around the corner. Nobody [...]

See, I can prove it, I did run the UBC Duathlon!

This race report is turning into a little bit of a story….
I decided to race the UBC duathlon race, a little last minute. Like the day/night before, over a glass of coffee/wine with my friends. It’s a story that makes [...]

My goal for this marathon was to finish and be able to tell myself, “Wow, you did so great.” It’s a different kind of goal, you will notice it doesn’t depend on time. It’s all about attitude. That’s what the eventi marathon is all about. There are no timed results. You run to [...]

Overall, it was a busy week with Xmas parties canceling workouts during the week.  The weekend involved the Vanoc 2010 volunteer training, so I only managed the bike commute downtown.  Because of the Vanoc workshop, I ran my long run on Saturday. My route to MacDonald Beach was awesome!  Almost 30km, right from my [...]

This week the highlights included a big day of spin/swim on Wednesday and two runs with Penney.  She’s becoming quite the runner.  Friday’s swim included a 100m TT where I pulled off a 1:24.

swim
bike
run
core/stretch

2hrs – 4.7km
3h25
4h ~40km
2hrs

Weekly total = 9:25 + 2hrs core/stretch/yoga
On the weekend, some wet mountain biking with Bronwyn and Clayton was in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]