2012

What a week! BC Bike Race 2012. Day 1: Cumberland: 13th My teammate Barry Wicks won a three up sprint for first to take the leaders Jersey. I got schooled. I’m not sure if it was the two long travel days before the race, the lack of a good lead up ride to open up […]

A couple weeks back in your hometown can do a person alot of good. The riding in Jasper is soooo good. Endless flowing trails, a couple solid road rides, a few mtn lookouts and a great homegrown bikeshop in Freewheel Cycle. The boys (& girls) down there love to ride and fix bikes and talk

The Test of Metal in Squamish BC was a weird weekend. After 2 weeks of very light training and finishing off bingeing on antibiotics things were starting to look up again. Being a little bummed at not racing Nationals or the World Cup it was time for a change of scenery so I decided on

Holy Hell. 6 weeks of training my immunity and my body’s ability to race while it is at war with itself is enough! I learned two very valuable things this past while. A) if a tooth is being a bastard, get it fixed. Ignoring pain is good while racing but not when its in your

Here is the finished product from an interview down in Tucson this past February with the UK based Privateer Magazine! http://cog.konaworld.com/archives/12356

This past week after the Salty Dog there was a total of 4 hrs of biking and 6 days of feeling like I got run over by a freight train full of coal. The last of the Penicillin was used up, there was one more round of visits to the doc and dentist today and

The 6hr Salty Dog race in Salmon Arm last weekend was a lot like the Toronto Maple Leafs 2012 hockey season.   A complete 100% catastrophic meltdown.  On the first lap I set a solid tempo up the first climb and to my pleasure had a solid gap on the field.  Riding within my means

This weekend is the 6hr Salty Dog Marathon in Salmon Arm BC.  It is going to be rad as the trails are great and the atmosphere is pretty cool with 400 + bike riders out in force to battle it out for freshly baked apple pies.  The crew from Balance Point Racing will be there. 

Victoria is a pretty stellar place to come back to too regroup.  Last Wednesday night was a local VCL (Victoria Cycling League) road race out in Latoria.  It was hard as we road around a 2.5 km loop 18 or 20 times with numerous attacks by the roadies.  By the last lap the pack of

The Whisky 50 is one of the coolest race weekends all year.  Friday night it started off with a bang in downtown Prescott Arizona as the fat tire crits took place in front of a huge crowd’s in the beer gardens.  The 1 km course, at mile high and full of steep climbs is one of

This past week has been unreal as I have been travelling with the rest of the Kona Team through the south western united states.  The trip began in California with some SUP (stand up Paddle boarding) in Satna Cruz and then it was off to the Sea Otter Classic in Monterrey.  The short track was

A week ago my Dad was out visiting my Brother Dustin and I out here in Victoria.  It was a perfect excuse to take an easy weekend on the bike and play some mini golf, eat bison burgers and watch hockey games instead.  On Tuesday my Dad headed back into the Mountains, Dustin started another