Simon vs. Lance

Someone had to do it; someone had to put Lance Armstrong in his place.  So why not first ever Olympic Gold Medalist and all round nice guy, Simon Whitfield?  The two have recently raged a war of words through the popular social media site Twitter after the brash Texan slighted the Olympic-distance triathlon – Simon’s [...]

Rick and Olympic Swimmers

This was simply too good to resist posting; Rick Mercer visits the Olympic training facility in Victoria, BC and talks with future Canadian Olympic hopefuls.  Funnily enough, watching Rick doing his flip-turns is not unlike my own pathetic learning curve in this regards.  Oh, and I really need to get me one of those harness [...]

Tri-Peeves

I’ve been under a lot of stress lately with the big pending move from my beloved bachelor pad, newly developing financial responsibilities including the purchase of my first vehicle, and my amped up training regimen.  Lately, it just seems like there’s been no time for me and the stuff I used to enjoy like sitting [...]

Thank you, Clif Bar!

Here’s an ‘oldie but a goodie’  for sure, but where it does crack me up completely it’s actually a little realistic at the same time.  And, yes, those mass swim starts can often feel like this at times; high school swim meet, meets real-life Kumate…all rolled into one. Enjoy.

Don’t Be That Awkward Runner

Okay, this is some seriously funny shit.  Truly. I’ve often wondered how I must appear to others while I’m out running; somewhere between a drunken transvestite running for the bus and a retarded orangutan I bet.  I mean, I’ve seen some extremely unflattering photos of myself from races and triathlons and they’re seldom, well, pretty.  [...]

2011 Blogging Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,700 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many [...]

Cancun 70.3 (In Retrospect)

Since I’ve been on a big reminiscing kick lately given that’s it a new year as well as a new training season, not to mention the new goals I have set for myself in 2012, I’m going to kick the vanity level up another notch for one more post and share some photos from the [...]

What Santa Brings Good Triathletes

Once my quads decided to cooperate and move freely again, I slipped into a rather busy, but thoroughly enjoyable Christmas Season, one from which I feel very blessed indeed.  Good family, good friends, and platefuls and platefuls of fine home cooked fare and specially baked holiday treats.  Shit, I think I might have eaten my [...]

Holiday Diet Plan

As we approach the holidays there has been the inevitable barrage of informational tidbits on how to avoid the whole holiday weight gain.  Sure, sure, research tells us that most people gain weight during the holiday season.  That comes as no real surprise.  Just about any triathlon related website, message board, event series – not to [...]

For the Triathlete Who Has Everything (Part 2)

Just in case the original round of gift ideas weren’t to your liking don’t fret, as there’s plenty more where they came from.  Truly, the Skymall catalogue is literally spewing forth with holiday awesomeness for your special wannabe triathlete.  There’s simply no reason to be ill-prepared, ill-equipped or ill-advised in the coming 2012 race season.  [...]