June 2009
8 posts
Congratulations to Dallas Morris
Dallas Morris is this years *only* solo finisher in the Race Across the West. This Calgary native outlasted the entire field to be the only solo finisher in this years race.
Awesome work Dallas!
More on his spectacular effort can be found on the RAW blog.
An apology
I’ve been pretty quiet here for the past couple of weeks, even though some pretty important stuff has been going on. I’ve been quiet about it because I didn’t want the race committee to hold my injuries against my application.
Two weeks ago I crashed my bike pretty hard. I was crossing the street car tracks, like I do dozens of times a week, and my back wheel slide into the...
Gotta love email...
By Saturday morning, I hadn’t heard back from the Furnace Creek race organizers about my application. I was guessing this meant that I had been passed over, so I sent them this note to make 100% sure.
Hello AdventureCORPS! A quick question - The message below implies that I’ll be notified either way if I’m confirmed to compete. I noticed on the Facebook page earlier that...
“The slower you go the more likely it is you’ll crash.”
– Julie Furtado
Fingers crossed
Today is the day that the Furnace Creek organizers send out their invitations to thus awesome event. I sent in my application a couple of weeks ago with the hopes of competing in October. I’ll be on pins and needles today!! Wish me luck.
Hello Athlete-Adventurer!
I received this email this afternoon…
Hello Athlete-Adventurer! Thank you for submitting your application to compete in the 26th Anniversary Furnace Creek 508 on October 3-5, 2009. This is a bold step you have taken and we salute you for the commitment it implies…
…and so it begins. Hopefully, this will be “My Next Big Ride”. I submitted my application to the...
A brief summary of Cross Ontario 09
Sorry for not posting anything over the past few weeks. I’ve been working on writing a proper recap of the ride. I’m already at 6,000 words, but still have the last 12 hours of the ride to document. Its definitely going to need some editing. It’ll be a few more days of work, so in the meantime, I thought it might be interesting to share the technical summary that I forwarded to...