I’ve been riding bikes at alarming speeds for years. Once, in a race, I rocketed down the Niagara escarpment to the tune of 95kilometres/hour. I won the race, but my Mom wasn’t all that pleased when she saw my speedometer. But with all that speed, all those kilometres I’ve ridden, I’ve never really crashed, never [...]
Archive for April, 2008
my mom’s biggest nightmare
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
from the inside out
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I cleaned my car today, inside and out.
My car really needed it. It was filthy. For example, at some point in the last year I dropped a powerbar on the seat where it promptly melted into the carpet. So now I have a powerseat. It’s gross. But after an hour of ferocious vacuumming, I [...]
school’s out for summer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag on April 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been in school for the last 20 years: 9 years primary, 5 years secondary, 4 year undergrad, 1 year masters, and 1 year of teacher’s college.
Today, officially, marks the end of my formal education. I walked out of class today and realized I’m done school. Forever, and ever. Although I’ll spend the rest of [...]
wind
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Every April, the wind and I have an unhappy reunion.
For some reason—I think is has to do with heat and cold mixing as the warm weather approaches—it’s just really windy in April.
Wind makes things harder—or easier—depending on which way you’re going. Once I won a t-shirt that said, “May the wind always be at [...]
training update
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I read all these triathlon blogs and people post their training on them. I want to be a hero like them, too. So here’s what I did the last five days. Note: it’s a lot of technical talk so fear not if you don’t understand it!
Saturday:2.5hour bike with Ben. We rode loops of the Ex. [...]
why i triathlon
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The sun is out, the snow is melting, and summer racing season is just around the corner. I know not everyone who reads my blog is a triathlon enthusiast, but I thought you might be interested in hearing some of my thoughts about triathlon, and why it matters so much to me.
In [...]
the worst way to die
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
What’s the worst way to die?
I’d imagine most people will choose between being burned alive or drowning. Rob Klein told me once that if you got stuck in an avalanche, your exhalations would freeze, thus forming an ice mask, thus causing a kind of suffocation-embalmment combination to occur. So that would suck.
But what if [...]
