Something like this. Inexpensive is a good thing.
I have no trailer hitch. Likely I would bolt one on, rather than weld.
Advice?
Category: cycling
Canada Olympic Park – biking
While home for a couple of weeks I enjoyed trail running and biking at C.O.P.
Not Whistler, B.C., the 2010 Olympic Park.
But Calgary, Alberta, the 1988 Winter Olympic Park.
Not the terrain park, rather the undeveloped land east of C.O.P called Paskapoo Slopes,.
Start biking just at the sign that says: Private Property. Keep Out.
The trails are very popular. And quite well used.
Waldorf School hosts their annual Fun Run every year on that land.
my theory of dog walking
Best method is for the human(s) to ride mountain bike(s).
The hound(s) to run on foot.
If I take Sasha to the off leash park, both she and I get a good workout. And we can stay together much more of the time than if I hoof it.
This simulates best the genetic urge of the dog to run with the pack.
hiking / biking Banded Peak, Alberta
Excellent challenge this past Saturday.
It’s become a tradition with the families of some of my hiking buddies to take their sons on this adventure as something of a rite of passage to manhood.
On Sept. 19th, 2009 we took three 13-yr-olds. They had to get to the top … or die trying. …
Thanks Rob for leading our group. It was terrific.
… what will Rick do without internet?
Rick McCharles is mostly offline hiking in Europe.
video – Adventure Sports Week
What is Adventure Racing, anyway?
I put together a 2.5min video with a few clips from the 25 races at Adventure Sports Week 2009.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
first Adventure Race Week photos
Just started to upload my best photos of our big Adventure Race Week event in Idaho.
see more on flickr
Good FUN so far. Not much sleep.
I was a “leader” for a kid’s Adventure Race, Saturday. My team was the youngest. We finished LAST after 4.5hrs.
Though my little guys made it around the very difficult course safely, they both fell off their bikes on the last couple of hundred metres to the finish line.
Oops.
coming down to Idaho with me?
My big AR event is right around the corner – Adventure Sports Week . Contact me if you can come down with me.
May 24, 2009
For Immediate Release…
Danelle Ballangee is scheduled to compete in the “Crux and the Crucible” at Adventure Sports Week 2009!
Adventure Sports Week is a 10 day long festival of 24 outdoor races, contests, clinics and social events taking place at Farragut State Park, 30 miles north of Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, June 5—14, 2009.
One of the racing world’s greatest stars and most inspirational stories is coming to compete at Adventure Sports Week in Coeur d’ Alene, June 12—14.
Danelle Ballangee is perhaps the World’s most decorated female Adventure Racer, having won Primal Quest, the Raid, the Adventure Racing World Championships, as well as dozens of other equally impressive competitions. She has also been named “US Athlete of the Year” an unprecedented six times in four different sports.
Despite her impressive resume, it was an unlikely slip that has Danelle—Nellie—to national prominence.
In December of 2006, while on a routine training run with her dog Taz, she slipped on some black ice and fell nearly 60 feet down the cliffs at Hurrah Pass, Utah, near Moab, breaking her pelvis completely in half, and leaving her bleeding internally and unable to walk. She managed to crawl over a quarter of a mile to a puddle where she could drink, and she spent over 50 hours in sub- freezing temperatures as her dog tried to keep her warm. On the third day, Taz left her, eventually making his way to the trailhead, where he was seen by the search and rescue team, who followed him back to Danelle.
After major surgery, where she received a titanium plate to hold her pelvis together, she was in a wheelchair for several months, and doctors speculated she would be unable to walk for as long as a year.
As a tribute to her strength and tenacity, Danelle competed in a solo 12 hour adven- ture race less than 6 months after her fall, finishing as top female.
Danelle will be competing at ASW representing Project Athena— http://www.projectathena.org – whose mission is to help women with breast cancer and other medical traumatic setbacks live their athletic and adventurous dreams by providing coaching, equipment, travel, entry fees and encouragement.
She will also be teaching part of the Adventure Racing Clinic, along with other super- stars such as Mike Kloser, captain of Team Nike, and AR World Champion.
source – Mind Over Mountain
National Bike to Work Day
Thursday, MAY 14th, 2009 is National Bike to Work Day.
I normally bike about an hour to work. But Tuesday and Thursday I ride the big, public limo.
Perhaps I need move to Freiburg, Germany:
… Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban’s streets are completely “car-free” — except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the community. Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park — large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home.
As a result, 70 percent of Vauban’s families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. …
read more – NY Times – In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
Hemmingway on bicycles
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”
— Ernest Hemingway
By artist Wil Freeborn.
via The Piton
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