Yesterday evening I raced a criterium for the first time, ever. It was the Glenlyon Crit put on by Escape Velocity Cycling Club, and was the second crit race of the season so far. World Tuesday Night Championships are held, as the name suggest, every Tuesday evening at either the Glenlyon location or the UBC location. It's an affordable event to join in...
The last couple weeks have been a blur. The older I get, the faster time seems to slip by. A weekend passes, then it's been a month, then it's been a quarter of a year! It's hard to keep up sometimes. I postpone doing some mundane chore, thinking I'll do it in a week....and then BOOM! It's been a couple months and it's...
This weekend I took part in my very first cycling road race. Not even a year after getting my road bike, and jumping into Lycra, and I'm already giving road racing a shot. I can honestly say I tried, hard as I could, to do well in this race. My bike had other plans for the day though! The race was Jeremy's Roubaix,...
It was almost a year ago that I bought my first road bike, slid into some Lycra and learned how to clip into and out of the pedals. It's crazy to think how much can go by in just one year. When I bought my road bike, I had one goal in mind - completing the Whistler Gran Fondo. I set myself a...