Stage 2: Lake Cowichan to Port Alberni
Stage 2, the longest of the week, threw racers onto 124km of active logging road cutting through the Cowichan and Alberni valleys enroute to Port Alberni. Though the race profile appeared to highlight massive, gruelling climbs and descents, the actual elevation gain only capped out at 193m, making for [...]
FYI: A decision on the Floyd Landis case will be handed down tomorrow by the Court of Arbitration for Sport five days before the start of the Tour de France. Keep an eye on www.bicycling.com for the latest updates.
From CBCSports…
Olympic silver medallist Marie-Hélène Prémont topped the list of four athletes named Friday to Canada’s mountain biking team for the Beijing Games. Prémont, 30, from Chateau Richer, Que., placed second in the women’s cross country race in Athens in 2004. She finished fourth at last Sunday’s world championships in Italy, and has posted three [...]
BCBR Stage 1 Race Update
Under brilliant blue skies and a hot summer sun, the BC Bike Race start gun fired to launch more than 400 riders from around the world into the first stage of the second annual multi-stage mountain bike event. Over the next 7 days, racers will cover stages totalling more than 550 [...]
The following courtesy of Race Director Bob Hanlon…
The 2nd Annual Lonsdale Mile Race is put on by North Vancouver City Fire Fighters IAFF Local 296, Run The North Shore and North Shore Athletics and will take place on Tuesday July 01, 2008 on the North shore Canada Parade Route at 0900 hours. The event [...]
Another great interview of a BC athlete by Chris Kelsall
Should you be fortunate enough to walk onto the track and witness, up-close, a 27:18 10, 000m runner, put out 10 near-perfect and even 1km repeats off of 60” rest (not sure how fast 2:40?) you may want to pay attention. Sure he will make [...]
A new issue of Get Out There is ready for viewing. Some of the topics covered in this issue include:
Beijing-bound interviews
Volleyball legend Conrad the Cannon
Review the camping gear
The access the issue please click here .
The following is a media release from organizers of the BC Bike Race:
With all the available spots selling out in only its second year, the B.C. Bike Race is poised to become a multi-day mountain bike epic on par with the Trans Alp Challenge in Europe, the Trans Rockies in eastern B.C. and Alberta, and [...]
The following interview was originally published on the Flotrack website by interviewer extraordinarie Christopher Kelsall. Thank you again Chris for the wonderful interviews. If you like this please visit his website. You can view his other interviews with BC athletes here.
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There was a stretch of time (for a couple of years) where on occasion, while [...]
Volunteers are needed for this weekend’s 5 Peaks Trail Running race at Golden Ears Provincial Park. The following is from the race organizers:
“With the creation of a new course though comes the desperate call for course marshals to help direct participants around the trails, and course sweep to collect all the course markers we use. [...]
June 22 – Scotiabank Half Marathon, Vancouver, BC
June 22 – New Balance Half Iron, Victoria, BC
Results are now posted for Friday evening’s Chip’s Not Dead Yet Memorial Mile on Race Headquarters.
The BC Bike Race is fast approaching (June 28 – July 4). Now in its second year the event is getting major publicity. Some of you who are not participating are undoubtably wondering what it takes to do a race of this magnitude – 7 stages from Victoria to Whistler with each stage ranging from [...]
Victoria’s Chris Kelsall’s latest interview is with four time Olympian Lorraine Moller from New Zealand. She talks about her best selling autobiography, On the Wings of Mercury , growing up in New Zealand and being the co-founder of the Arthur Lydiard Foundation. Originally posted on Flotrack .
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Phidippides the Athenian foot-messenger left a legacy [...]
A North Vancouver woman has just completed the Gobi March and has written her first account of the race. Below is an excerpt from her blog – give me a good reason – a mediocre’s struggles to be average . Trust us, what she has accomplished is anything BUT average!
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obstacles are those frightful things [...]
"Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain… Once, someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ’Pleasure?’ I said. ’I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for pleasure, I [...]
Chip’s Not Dead, so get off your butt
By Charlie Smith, originally published in the Georgia Straight
From the start, it was clear that this wasn’t going to be a typical funeral. It was obvious by the look of the pallbearers: six strapping young men clad only in shorts and bow ties. The location wasn’t quite right [...]
There’s a new Trainharder-hosted blog – Demian Seale. Demian is a a Cat 3 roadie with a hockey background who didn’t start riding and racing until 2004. He has developed a love for time trials and this year is going to try to expand into triathlon and duathlon (if his ankle can handle the running!). [...]
This Thursday evening brings the annual Victoria International Track Classic to University of Victoria’s Centennial Stadium. Here’s the lowdown on what to expect for the event courtesy of Chris Kelsall . This article was originally posted on the Flotrack website .
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The Victoria International Track Classic is quickly becoming the most successful in [...]
A number of participants from last weekend’s Test of Metal mountain biking race in Squamish have posted write-ups..
NEW! Tall for a Girl – Test of Metal – "The Test of Metal is a classic mountain bike race in BC. A Canadian Epic as they say. And it is."
Randomly Generated – Race Report: Test of Metal [...]
