April 2009
19 posts
This is an interview I did on CFRB today. If you...
Wrong Turn!
Twice today I did radio interviews about My Next Big Ride and twice today, I gave out the wrong URL. If you are arrived at this blog as a result of my poor directions, please check out the “Official” website of my Cross Ontario Record Attempt.
The website is up...
I thought it would be useful to try and capture some of the essentials in a website and use that to gather up some traffic that we’ll generate from the press release we’re sending out later this week. You can check it out at http://crossontario.ca
Part of my motivation is to generate funding and awareness for the Coast to Coast Against Cancer Foundation. Please consider making a...
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes...”
– Anna Freud
“Nothing worth accomplishing is easy.
Nothing easy is worth accomplishing.
...”
– thoughts on what I’ve learned from cycling…
Beauty rest, eh
Larry is in the middle of sleeping in.
We’re doing about 350 today so I hope he wakes up soon :)
“31 Days To Go.”
Normal
I rode my bike to the bank today.
The sun shined the whole way and the journey took less than 10 minutes. I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt and my leather jacket and my regular prescription eye glasses.
It was entirely unremarkable.
And I enjoyed ever second of it. Its been a while since I got on a bike for no real reason other than to get some place. Like I used to when I was a kid when I...
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”
– Jody Foster
When average becomes epic...
Today’s ride got a little out of hand.
I was up at 4:30 this morning to give me plenty of time to pick Larry up by 6am at his place so that we could tackle his Airport Road route and still leave enough time for him to get home before noon.
Of course, I didn’t get to his place until 6:10 and he never came downstairs until 6:20 and as we drove and chatted our way up to Hwy 9 and...