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890 days ago
European Duathlon Championships The weather in Scotland sucked. It was raining, windy, cold, and humid. The run course was good. Very hilly. For each lap 2.5km, about 700m was spent running through a dark, smelly, underground tunnel. The bike course was wicked. It was 6 laps around this huge mountain. At the top it was so foggy that I could only see about 75-100m in front of me. The decent was super fast and curvy. The climb was steep and made those less fit cyclist suffer.The course was super slow. The hills and the weather made the run/bike/run times look like we ran and cycled backwards. My times look very slow, but if you compare them to others, you realize that there were fairly decent. Anyway, that is exactly what happened in the first 10km in the race. on the bike I made up a 1min gap to catch a group within 10min, so I'm fairly fit on the bike. Just as fit as the best riders. Anyway, I caught up with a group, however, they didn't want to take turns pulling to catch ...
914 days ago
I was fortunate enough to attend the 2007 World Duathlon Championships in Gyor Hungary this year. Quite a different atmosphere from Australia. While my dad and I were there we saw some very interesting buildings and some very different people. We took a train ride to Budapest to see the river and some of the 700 year old buildings. In one section of the town the buildings were covered with bullet holes. There was some sort of protest going on. The race itself was a great success. I was at the front of the starting line with 451 people behind me. My goal was to take off and sprint the first 200m to get away from everyone else and not get tangled up or have my shoe stepped on. Luckily, about 20 other people did this with me, so I didn't look like a moron out of nowhere. The 10km was fast....30:10 (it was short by about 1.1km) and I was in 11th position. The transition went very smoothly, and I came out with a few guys. For the entire 40km bike portion people were drafting ...
957 days ago
Hello Everyone, Since Brys added me to the Untied Cycle webpage I've been getting tons of views so I figure it's time for another written report. Tim has been giving me some high intensity intervals lately as I prepare for the 2007 World Duathlon Championships in Gyor, Hungary on May 20th. I've also got my tickets booked for the European Duathlon Championships in Scotland for June 16 - that should also be a big one. As for the weather here: today was the first day that I was able to go outside with a t-shirt on. We still have lots of snow, but it's slowly melting away. I'm hoping by next week I'll be able to take my 'cross bike out for some riding. Yeah, I know all you Edmontonions have been riding outside for quite some time now. For all those reading in Edmonton, give me an email or a comment and let me know how the training and riding is going there. Thanks guys. Brys, how's the police thing going?
1010 days ago
The days are starting to get a little longer here is Simpson. The sun now rises around 9:00am instead of 10:30am like it did in December. It's still really cold though. The other day is was -42C with the windchill which makes running and riding outside impossible. In other news, I bought myself a small house in town. It needs a lot of renovation work, but it will fun to work on and I get to decide how things will be done. I'll put some pictures up tomorrow. Later
1051 days ago
Check out this kid. He's my brother's friend doing all these jumps in Fort Simpson. Wicked. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE_f_z_qbME
