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2008-11-11T08:09:00.000-08:00

Ironman Canada bike
Find more Bike Rides in Penticton, British Columbia

2008-04-30T18:09:00.000-07:00

April 19th ride to Rock oven's park Penticton

2008-02-05T13:18:00.001-08:00

Swim start for Ironman Canada. A little chilly for a swim today but I managed a few strokes

2008-01-07T15:37:00.001-08:00

Climb to top of Giant's Head Mtn on closed road. Road had many inches of snow on it.
Great fun and very hard climb in snow.
Rode to giant's head via Kvr over trestle crashed once on KVR as it was very icy in spots.
Great coming down Giant's head road on snowy road. It was not too icy but slippy enough that I was skidding around all the hair pins at 30 km an hour. Unreal!

2008-01-05T09:29:00.000-08:00

The picture taken just before the arrest from the police whilst we were attempting to run across the Hoover dam last year. Yes we were forced to turn back by the big bad cops as there is no running on the dam wall.
I guess they may have thought we had explosives strapped to us.

2007-12-17T14:16:00.000-08:00

Ride up KVR with Pierre towards tunnel east side of lake on Saturday Dec 15th 2007. Lots o snow and lots o fun.

2007-12-03T20:46:00.000-08:00

Can you guess the bridge in the background?

2007-12-03T20:20:00.000-08:00

2007-11-29T17:22:00.001-08:00

Last year while on my ride around skaha lake.
Hope it doesn't happen again this winter as it was very cold

2007-11-15T16:13:00.002-08:00

My new ride!

2007-11-15T15:36:00.001-08:00

2007-11-15T12:08:00.001-08:00

XTC Buntzen Lake Canadian off road champs
12 th over the line and Canadian 40-44 off road champion.

www.winningtime.ca/2007_xtcvan/oalltrifull.txt

2007-11-15T12:04:00.001-08:00

The Sicamous paddle wheeler.
Fall shot on our beach Okanagan lake Penticton

2007-11-15T11:57:00.000-08:00

My new mountain bike. This thing is kick ass!

2007-11-15T11:52:00.000-08:00

Peach Classic Olympic triathlon Penticton BC Canada. This is the hardest Olympic triathlon I have done. Ended up 21 over the line and 2nd in the 40-44 age group.
www.wi.ca/peach/results2007.htm

2007-11-15T11:30:00.000-08:00

This was our tri club bunch cheering on a kid's triathlon held in Keromeos BC.
I'm the one with the nice legs

2007-11-15T09:18:00.001-08:00

Did the summerland cross country run race. It was so good!
Results below
www.interiorrunning.ca/Results/2007races/SummerlandXC2007.htm

2007-07-26T12:18:00.000-07:00

Check out my mtn bike video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xVusSGNEt0

2007-03-22T12:59:00.000-07:00

Well just got back from a wild trip driving, mountain biking, running trip around 6 states in the USA. Drove from Vancouver to San Fransisco. Did a wicked Mtn bike race in Cool California about 80 km East of San Fran and very close to Auburn. Results here....... http://www.auburnbikeworks.com/pdf/Cool%20Race%20Results%202007.doc.pdf

I placed 5Th in sport age division. What an incredible race............such a great course and well organised and so much swag was given out........almost everyone got something. Went on to Bakerfield and then to Death Valley in which we rode from Furnace Creek to Badwater(lowest point in North America at 282 feet below sea level) and took in lots of side roads on way back. It was nice and hot and incredible views.
Next stop was Vegas and Hoover Dam(where we got in trouble from the police for trying to run across the dam wall) then to Grand Canyon to run North rim to South rim of the canyon.
Plans had to be changed as the road to North rim(the last 40 miles was closed) s0 we drove to south rim and ran to bottom of canyon and back. That was so good, it was hot and the Angel trail starts with a 6 mile descent then flattens out a bit then goes down some more. It was a 4 hour return trip running most of the way except 10 mins where it got really hard and I just about blew a valve.
After the canyon run we drove back to San Fran via Vegas. We did some awesome riding around San Fran and surrounds taking in the bridge and Hawk hill and all the rides around there.
Flew back to Vancouver and then drove back to Penticton where I sit and think what a trip.

2007-03-04T17:19:00.000-08:00

Went for a ride around Skaha lake via the KVR for 1/2 of it yesterday and this is what I came upon. On the North West side of the lake there were 3 foot waves and chunks of ice were surfing themselves on top of the waves and crashing onto the beach. What a spectacle!!! Never seen this before. I had planed on a swim but will have to wait till it's a little warmer.

2007-02-28T19:31:00.000-08:00

This ride was incredible. It involves a 32 km climb to the top of Penticton's local ski hill. What beaut scenery but $%ck t was cold. I went up with just water and no food . When I was about 2 km from the top I realized that was not a good idea and that I am not in as good as shape as I was last year when I rode up before IMC. When I finally got there I went straight to the shop and purchased $10 of sugar just to get myself in good enough shape to get home. Was I glad to get home and went straight to the hot tub to warm up. 32 km downhill in minus 5 after sweating all the way up tends to cool your body off a bit.

2007-02-15T19:21:00.000-08:00

Rode to Summerland from Penticton via The KVR. What a neat little ride today. Had to ride through slush for part of it but pretty cool. Went over the train trestle and went up Canyon view road. Return trip was 1:45 and I was glad to get back as it started snowing. Nice to get in the hot tub after that.

2007-02-15T13:48:00.000-08:00

Well this is the first year in about ten years that I have let myself go. I have done very little since Sept 2006. I really do need to get out the door.
I can only blame these bloody cold Canadian winters for my lack of training.
I'm thinking of taking up track and field rather than triathlon. A friend of mine said I was better suited for that. What do you think?

2006-11-13T08:07:00.000-08:00

I've been trying to cut back my coffee consumption for quite awhile now. Finally I'm down to 1 cup.

2006-11-09T18:36:00.000-08:00

My ride to the top of Giant's head. To get here is via Summerland BC.
It was a very enjoyable ride from Penticton. Once at Summerland and turn off to Giant's head park it takes about 25 mins to get to the very top.It is a challenging ride but well worth the scenery when you get to the top.
The pumpkin was growing near the road side on the way up towards Giant's head. If you are looking for a great ride this is the one.

2006-11-09T15:50:00.000-08:00

Not very often you get a picture of the front row at Ironman. Thanks to Mike Bobick from http://www.kinetic-potential.com/for the great shot. The wetsuit in this shot appears a little tight.

I've had much better Ironman races!

This was probably the best I felt all day

For results http://www.ironman.ca/

2006-11-09T15:38:00.000-08:00

Exit from water at Buntzen lake Xterra Vancouver Sept 2006 7th outright and 1st in 40-44 age group. What a challenging and beautiful course.

For full results see http://www.winningtime.ca/results_xtcvancouver_090906/oalltrifull.txt

2006-11-07T17:50:00.000-08:00

Mont 24 hour mountain bike race Oct 2004 Canberra Australia.
Placed 6 th outright. Covered 323 km in the 24 hour period over a 19km course.
Consumed 10 litres gatorade and about 10000 calories of other food. Thanks to Steve Newman and Amanda for their support.
Without them staying up all night and feeding me and keeping my batteries on my lights charged I could not have done it.

2006-11-07T17:44:00.000-08:00

Cheakamus Challenge Sept 2006 Mtn bike race 33 over the line
For full results see
http://www.cheakamuschallenge.com/race_results2006_long_course.htm