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Joanie Caron – Nanoblur-Gears – 8th place in Stage 4

On Saturday morning we got the news that after Stage 4 the paramedics had tended to Carrie Cartnill of Nanoblur-Gears. We spoke to Joanie Caron to check up on her teammate as well as to congratulate her on her 8th place in the Minneapolis Criterium:

You finished 8th on Friday evening in the Minneapolis Crit – you must have been pleased with that result.
Joanie Caron: Yes, I’m happy, it’s my second Top 10 in an NRC stage this year. For sure I’m not entirely satisfied and I want more for the weekend. Hopefully it will come today but yesterday was a good race. Read more

Miguel swims Lake Ontario

Last weekend the C3 team had its Childrens race weekend.  http://c3online.ca/2010Events/KOS/index.html.  I was there for a 13h volunteer day, helping on the bike course.  I spent a little while teaching transition skills and bike tactics to a few athletes.  Of course the great thing was being able to catch up with old friends – including great guys Marcello.  And of Course Miguel Vadillo (Malva) http://malvaswimlakeontario.typepad.com/my-blog/ who is training and fund raising for a really cool goal:  Swimming the 52km (as the crow flies, not including the the currant goes the other way, so you actually swim farther). Read more

quick observations

I just finished a 200km hike over 7 days, here are some of my observations from that.  Most of it was on (the Bruce) trails, but every day there ended up being 3-4km of walking alongside a road.

• hiking makes for sore feet, especially 75-80 h of it
• 5 cars honked/ cheered me on
• One of those was a convertible Lambo and the driver through in a few engine revs
• Zero cars tried hitting me/ were threatening
• I saw one trail runner and he was cheerful and chatty
• 3 triathletes refused to acknowledge me (2 running one on bike)
• all groups of cyclists said hello (I kinda thought it would have been the opposite) Read more

Subway Hike video blog

Crazyness in Tucson

Hey there from Tucson AZ.  The dynamic Trio of myself, Dragon, and Bechtel have been here in Tucson for over a month now.  Between 27h training weeks (they’re all 27h weeks), and looking after personalbest.ca training camps.  The constant flow of campers down here is a lot of fun.  I really find energy from talking to and working with all the athletes.

Also we were fortunate enough to have 3 weeks of training with Sarah and Nate Haskins-Kortuem.  Very cool people, and talented athletes (Sarah has a world championship medal and was 11th at the past Olympics).  Here is a video of the action

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Bacheolor party = excuse to bike tour and…

My favorite Cousin, X-opher, had his Bachelor party down in Newport Beach over the weekend.  To get there I had the choice of a 150mile drive on the interstates, and through LA traffic (At 3:30am on our way home there was a traffic jam… there is always something there).  I certainly didn’t feel like driving both ways through LA traffic, and taking the train round trip seemed expensive.  The next most logical step was bicycling 240 miles around LA.  There were not convenient mid route stops, so I opted to borrow a Ibex trailer, and camping gear from Sam, screwed around packing and ended up leaving at the crack of 10 am. Read more

Orange you glad that Julia didn’t say Banana

Evil lent his truck out a few weeks ago and when it came back there were 90 lbs of 3 day old oranges in the back.  That’s around 150 plump juicy, fresh-off-the-tree-they-do-not-taste-like-this-in-Canada oranges.  They are wonderful.  My Dr. had just prescribed to me, of all things, eating oranges.   I have now been eating 4 oranges (at least) a day.  I’m some place in the 1/2 to 1/3 of the way through, but they are starting to go downhill. Read more

… ah the Race

After I finished my post on Friday, I started out for a run.  Only I found that my legs were not functioning.  I made it 1/2 way down the driveway before pulling the plug on that idea.  Which was a little disheartening.

From there I went over to Action Sports for a few final bike adjustments so that it was running tip top.  Went to my fav grocery store and stocked up on $140 of organic veggies, rice, nuts, salmon, etc.

At this point I had a decision to make.  Either head to Sams house (where everyone would be waking up at 6am and heading to the race) or Kerry’s, where the food needed to go, and there were guests over, and no one would be waking up at 6am (they woke up between 9 and 11am.

So that was it, we played Reindeer Games – which essentially was doge ball with 6 people, 4 bowling ball sized nerf balls, no teams, with strobe, no, or low lighting. Read more