Race:GIVER-8-ER

The GIVER-8-ER was a hard course for en endurance race –I always said.  Bogi and I teamed up again for a mixed 2 person team . We did the 3lap/2lap split just like on the Trans Stony race. To add a little excitement now we had the kids as well to look after. Thanks to [...]

Race:Perogy XC – slowly getting slightly faster

Perogy XC race was our 3rd race this year and was held in Edmonton’s  Terwillegar Park. After 3 hours of fairly trouble-less driving with two kids we made it to the venue and I went off to pre-ride the course. The course was really fun 6.5 km loop in the park. There were 3 [...]

Giver-8-er course ride

We did 3 laps on the Giver-8-er course today with bunch of deadgoats. The course is in the woods on the east side of the Canada Olympic Park. It is a very-very hard course for an 8 hour endurance race. Tight single track,lots of short steep climbs,small creek crossings,bumpy double tracks. I [...]

Race:Trans Stony Superchero Challenge 6 hour endurance race.

Bogi an I headed for Edmonton after Soma’s birthday party on Saturday evening. Stayed in Leduc overnight and got to Fern &Harvey’s MTB Farm just in time to sign on and get plates. No time for warm up…no time for bathroom break…oh well just gonna have to suck it up.

Having just started [...]

Awesome video –Danny MacAskill

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Race:Coulee Cruiser,Alberta XC #1 –1st bike race since 2005.

Click Coulee Cruiser –Alberta XC #1  for some photos of the race.

It was my first race since October 2005 and my first ever bike race in Canada. Thanks to Tim,Pat at Deadgoat and Roddi at ABA I got upgraded from novice to expert category so I could have a good reality check… 

The [...]